PostgreSQL: Barman 3.15 Released

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Release Announcement

Barman 3.15

WHAT’S NEW

This update is notifying you of a new software release of Barman.

Backup and Recovery Manager (Barman) is an open-source administration tool for remote backups and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers in business-critical environments. It relies on PostgreSQL’s robust and reliable point-in-time recovery technology, allowing DBAs to remotely manage a complete catalog of backups and the recovery phase of multiple remote servers – all from one location. Barman is distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license and maintained by EDB.

Highlights of this release include:

NOTABLE CHANGES

• Allow incremental backups to be taken with compression and encryption
• Deprecate local_staging_path and recovery_staging_path configuration options
• Improve flexibility and consistency of staging area configuration
• Barman now provides a single, unified, and more flexible staging area configuration

MINOR CHANGES

• Add --staging-path and --staging-location to barman restore
• Add option --if-not-exists to barman receive-wal --create-slot
• Fail gracefully when an unexpected field is found in the backup metadata.
• Improve orphan backup warning for proper cleanup
• Improve tag handling in cloud commands to fix parsing errors
• Clarify WAL Number label in barman show-backup output
• Change “No of files” to “Number of files” in show-backup command
• Validate options passed for servers and models through config-update
• Add --check-timeout argument to barman check and barman backup commands
• Add --list-empty-directories to barman list-files command
• Improve archiving check with automatic WAL switching and archiving
• Support shortcuts as backup IDs in Barman cloud scripts

BUGFIXES

• Ignore data files of temporary tables during backups
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