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BARMAN(1) | Version 2.1 | BARMAN(1) |
NAME¶
barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQLSYNOPSIS¶
barman [OPTIONS] COMMANDDESCRIPTION¶
Barman is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python and maintained by 2ndQuadrant. Barman can perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and helps DBAs during the recovery phase.OPTIONS¶
- -v, --version
- Show program version number and exit.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not output anything. Useful for cron scripts.
- -h, --help
- Show a help message and exit.
- -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
- Use the specified configuration file.
COMMANDS¶
Important: every command has a help option- archive-wal SERVER_NAME
- Get any incoming xlog file (both through standard archive_command and streaming replication, where applicable) and moves them in the WAL archive for that server. If necessary, apply compression when requested by the user.
- cron
- Perform maintenance tasks, such as enforcing retention policies or WAL files management.
- list-server
- Show all the configured servers, and their descriptions.
- show-server SERVER_NAME
- Show information about SERVER_NAME, including: conninfo, backup_directory, wals_directory and many more. Specify all as SERVER_NAME to show information about all the configured servers.
- status SERVER_NAME
- Show information about the status of a server, including: number of available backups, archive_command, archive_status and many more. For example:
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Server quagmire: Description: The Giggity database Passive node: False PostgreSQL version: 9.3.9 pgespresso extension: Not available PostgreSQL Data directory: /srv/postgresql/9.3/data PostgreSQL 'archive_command' setting: rsync -a %p barman@backup:/var/lib/barman/quagmire/incoming Last archived WAL: 0000000100003103000000AD Current WAL segment: 0000000100003103000000AE Retention policies: enforced (mode: auto, retention: REDUNDANCY 2, WAL retention: MAIN) No. of available backups: 2 First available backup: 20150908T003001 Last available backup: 20150909T003001 Minimum redundancy requirements: satisfied (2/1)
- check SERVER_NAME
- Show diagnostic information about SERVER_NAME, including: Ssh connection check, PostgreSQL version, configuration and backup directories, archiving process, streaming process, replication slots, etc. Specify all as SERVER_NAME to show diagnostic information about all the configured servers.
- --nagios
- Nagios plugin compatible output
- diagnose
- Collect diagnostic information about the server where barman is installed and all the configured servers, including: global configuration, SSH version, Python version, rsync version, as well as current configuration and status of all servers.
- backup SERVER_NAME
- Perform a backup of SERVER_NAME using parameters specified in the configuration file. Specify all as SERVER_NAME to perform a backup of all the configured servers.
- --immediate-checkpoint
- forces the initial checkpoint to be done as quickly as possible. Overrides value of the parameter immediate_checkpoint, if present in the configuration file.
- --no-immediate-checkpoint
- forces to wait for the checkpoint. Overrides value of the parameter immediate_checkpoint, if present in the configuration file.
- --reuse-backup [INCREMENTAL_TYPE]
- Overrides reuse_backup option behaviour. Possible values for INCREMENTAL_TYPE are:
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- off: do not reuse the last available backup;
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- copy: reuse the last available backup for a server and create a copy of the unchanged files (reduce backup time);
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- link: reuse the last available backup for a server and create a hard link of the unchanged files (reduce backup time and space);
link is the default target if --reuse-backup is used and INCREMENTAL_TYPE is not explicited.
- --retry-times
- Number of retries of base backup copy, after an error. Used during both backup and recovery operations. Overrides value of the parameter basebackup_retry_times, if present in the configuration file.
- --no-retry
- Same as --retry-times 0
- --retry-sleep
- Number of seconds of wait after a failed copy, before retrying. Used during both backup and recovery operations. Overrides value of the parameter basebackup_retry_sleep, if present in the configuration file.
- list-backup SERVER_NAME
- Show available backups for SERVER_NAME. This command is useful to retrieve a backup ID. For example:
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servername 20111104T102647 - Fri Nov 4 10:26:48 2011 - Size: 17.0 MiB - WAL Size: 100 B
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In this case, *20111104T102647* is the backup ID.
- show-backup SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
- Show detailed information about a particular backup, identified by the server name and the backup ID. See the Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts. For example:
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Backup 20150828T130001: Server Name : quagmire Status : DONE PostgreSQL Version : 90402 PGDATA directory : /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/data Base backup information: Disk usage : 12.4 TiB (12.4 TiB with WALs) Incremental size : 4.9 TiB (-60.02%) Timeline : 1 Begin WAL : 0000000100000CFD000000AD End WAL : 0000000100000D0D00000008 WAL number : 3932 WAL compression ratio: 79.51% Begin time : 2015-08-28 13:00:01.633925+00:00 End time : 2015-08-29 10:27:06.522846+00:00 Begin Offset : 1575048 End Offset : 13853016 Begin XLOG : CFD/AD180888 End XLOG : D0D/8D36158 WAL information: No of files : 35039 Disk usage : 121.5 GiB WAL rate : 275.50/hour Compression ratio : 77.81% Last available : 0000000100000D95000000E7 Catalog information: Retention Policy : not enforced Previous Backup : 20150821T130001 Next Backup : - (this is the latest base backup)
- list-files [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME
- BACKUP_ID List all the files in a particular backup, identified by the server name and the backup ID. See the Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts.
- --target TARGET_TYPE
- Possible values for TARGET_TYPE are:
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- data: lists just the data files;
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- standalone: lists the base backup files, including required WAL files;
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- wal: lists all the WAL files between the start of the base backup and the end of the log / the start of the following base backup (depending on whether the specified base backup is the most recent one available);
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- full: same as data + wal.
The default value is standalone.
- rebuild-xlogdb SERVER_NAME
- Perform a rebuild of the WAL file metadata for SERVER_NAME (or every server, using the all shortcut) guessing it from the disk content. The metadata of the WAL archive is contained in the xlog.db file, and every Barman server has its own copy.
- recover [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
- DESTINATION_DIRECTORY Recover a backup in a given directory (local or remote, depending on the --remote-ssh-command option settings). See the Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts.
- --target-tli TARGET_TLI
- Recover the specified timeline.
- --target-time TARGET_TIME
- Recover to the specified time.
You can use any valid unambiguous representation (e.g: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm").
- --target-xid TARGET_XID
- Recover to the specified transaction ID.
- --target-name TARGET_NAME
- Recover to the named restore point previously created with the pg_create_restore_point(name) (for PostgreSQL 9.1 and above users).
- --exclusive
- Set target xid to be non inclusive.
- --tablespace NAME:LOCATION
- Specify tablespace relocation rule.
- --remote-ssh-command SSH_COMMAND
- This options activates remote recovery, by specifying the secure shell command to be launched on a remote host. This is the equivalent of the "ssh_command" server option in the configuration file for remote recovery. Example: 'ssh postgres@db2'.
- --retry-times RETRY_TIMES
- Number of retries of data copy during base backup after an error. Overrides value of the parameter basebackup_retry_times, if present in the configuration file.
- --no-retry
- Same as --retry-times 0
- --retry-sleep
- Number of seconds of wait after a failed copy, before retrying. Overrides value of the parameter basebackup_retry_sleep, if present in the configuration file.
- get-wal [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME WAL_ID
- Retrieve a WAL file from the xlog archive of a given server. By default, the requested WAL file, if found, is returned as uncompressed content to STDOUT. The following options allow users to change this behaviour:
- -o OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
- destination directory where the get-wal will deposit the requested WAL
- -z
- output will be compressed using gzip
- -j
- output will be compressed using bzip2
- -p SIZE
- peek from the WAL archive up to SIZE WAL files, starting from the requested one. 'SIZE' must be an integer >= 1. When invoked with this option, get-wal returns a list of zero to 'SIZE' WAL segment names, one per row.
- switch-xlog SERVER_NAME
- Execute pg_switch_xlog() on the target server
- --force
- Forces the switch by executing CHECKPOINT before pg_switch_xlog(). IMPORTANT: executing a CHECKPOINT might increase I/O load on a PostgreSQL server. Use this option with care.
- --archive
- Wait for one xlog file to be archived. If after a defined amount of time (default: 30 seconds) no xlog file is archived, Barman will teminate with failure exit code.
- --archive-timeout TIMEOUT
- Specifies the amount of time in seconds (default: 30 seconds) the archiver will wait for a new xlog file to be archived before timing out.
- receive-wal SERVER_NAME
- Start the stream of transaction logs for a server. The process relies on pg_receivexlog to receive WAL files from the PostgreSQL servers through the streaming protocol.
- --stop
- stop the receive-wal process for the server
- --reset
- reset the status of receive-wal, restarting the streaming from the current WAL file of the server
- --create-slot
- create the physical replication slot configured with the slot_name configuration parameter
- --drop-slot
- drop the physical replication slot configured with the slot_name configuration parameter
- delete SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
- Delete the specified backup. Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts.
- replication-status [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME
- Shows live information and status of any streaming client attached to the given server (or servers). Default behaviour can be changed through the following options:
- --minimal
- machine readable output (default: False)
- --target TARGET_TYPE
- Possible values for TARGET_TYPE are:
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- hot-standby: lists only hot standby servers
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- wal-streamer: lists only WAL streaming clients, such as pg_receivexlog
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- all: any streaming client (default)
BACKUP ID SHORTCUTS¶
Rather than using the timestamp backup ID, you can use any of the following shortcuts/aliases to identity a backup for a given server:- first
- Oldest available backup for that server, in chronological order.
- last
- Latest available backup for that server, in chronological order.
- latest
- same ast last.
- oldest
- same ast first.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- Success
- Not zero
- Failure
SEE ALSO¶
barman (5).BUGS¶
Barman has been extensively tested, and is currently being used in several production environments. However, we cannot exclude the presence of bugs.Any bug can be reported via the Sourceforge bug tracker. Along the bug submission, users can provide developers with diagnostics information obtained through the barman diagnose command.
AUTHORS¶
In alphabetical order:- •
- Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@2ndquadrant.it> (project leader)
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- Jonathan Battiato <jonathan.battiato@2ndquadrant.it> (QA/testing)
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- Stefano Bianucci (developer, intern from University of Florence)
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- Giuseppe Broccolo <giuseppe.broccolo@2ndquadrant.it> (QA/testing)
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- Giulio Calacoci <giulio.calacoci@2ndquadrant.it> (developer)
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- Francesco Canovai <francesco.canovai@2ndquadrant.it> (QA/testing)
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- Leonardo Cecchi <leonardo.cecchi@2ndquadrant.it> (developer)
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- Gianni Ciolli <gianni.ciolli@2ndquadrant.it> (QA/testing)
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- Britt Cole <britt.cole@2ndquadrant.it> (documentation)
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- Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> (lead developer)
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- Rubens Souza <rubens.souza@2ndquadrant.it> (QA/testing)
Past contributors:
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- Carlo Ascani
RESOURCES¶
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- Homepage: <http://www.pgbarman.org/>
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- Documentation: <http://docs.pgbarman.org/>
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- Professional support: <http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/>
COPYING¶
Barman is the property of 2ndQuadrant Italia and its code is distributed under GNU General Public License v3.Copyright (C) 2011-2016 2ndQuadrant Italia Srl - <http://www.2ndQuadrant.it/>.
AUTHORS¶
2ndQuadrant Italy <http://www.2ndQuadrant.it>.January 5, 2017 | Barman User manuals |