Re: Barman versus pgBackRest

On 03/09/2018 08:56 AM, David Steele wrote:
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>> About pgBarman, I like :
>> - be able restore on a remote server from the backup server
> This a good feature, and one that has been requested for pgBackRest. You
> can do this fairly trivially with ssh, however, so it generally hasn't
> been a big deal for people. Is there a particular reason you need this
> feature?

(Sorry to dredge up this old thread.)

Do you just change the IP address of the "restore target"?

>> - use replication slots for backingup wal on the backup server.
> Another good feature. We have not added it yet because pgBackRest was
> originally written for very high-volume clusters (100K+ WAL per day) and
> our parallel async feature answers that need much better. We recommend
> a replicated standby for more update-to-date data.

Every N minutes you copy the WAL files to the backup server?

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