Barman 1.6.1 released

23 MAY 2016: 2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of Barman
version 1.6.1, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release introduces support for --peek option for get-wal
command which allow users to implement parallel remote restore commands
on standby servers and during recovery.

Through the new replication-status command, Barman becomes a very
practical tool for monitoring streaming replication status of every
managed server.

A few important improvements have been added to the check command, which
should make installation and initial configuration easier. Another step
in this direction is the switch-xlog command, a new feature also
included in this release.

Minor bugs have also been fixed, including support for
archive_mode=always for PostgreSQL 9.5, as well as FAILED backups
preventing new one from being taken.

Many thanks for funding towards the development of this release go to
Jobrapido (www.jobrapido.com) Navionics (www.navionics.com) and
Subito.it (www.subito.it)

However, for a complete list of changes, see the "Release Notes" section
below.

Links

- Website: http://www.pgbarman.org/
- Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
- Documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation/
- Man page, section 1: http://docs.pgbarman.org/barman.1.html
- Man page, section 5: http://docs.pgbarman.org/barman.5.html
- Support: http://www.pgbarman.org/support/
- pgespresso extension: https://github.com/2ndquadrant-it/pgespresso

Release notes

- Add --peek option to get-wal command to discover existing WAL files
from the Barman's archive

- Add replication-status command for monitoring the status of any
streaming replication clients connected to the PostgreSQL server.
The --target option allows users to limit the request to only hot
standby servers or WAL streaming clients

- Add the switch-xlog command to request a switch of a WAL file to the
PostgreSQL server. Through the '--force' it issues a CHECKPOINT
beforehand

- Add streaming_archiver_name option, which sets a proper
application_name to pg_receivexlog when streaming_archiver is
enabled (only for PostgreSQL 9.3 and above)

- Check for _superuser_ privileges with PostgreSQL's standard
connections (#30)

- Check the WAL archive is never empty

- Check for 'backup_label' on the master when server is down

- Improve barman-wal-restore contrib script

- Bug fixes:

- Treat the "failed backups" check as non-fatal
- Rename '-x' option for get-wal as '-z'
- Add archive_mode=always support for PostgreSQL 9.5 (#32)
- Properly close PostgreSQL connections when necessary
- Fix receive-wal for pg_receive_xlog version 9.2

Download

- Release Notes:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.6.1/
- Sources:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.6.1/barman-1.6.1.tar.gz/download
- RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 5:
- Barman:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.6.1/barman-1.6.1-1.rhel5.noarch.rpm/download
- Dependencies:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/rhel5-deps/
- RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6:
- Barman:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.6.1/barman-1.6.1-1.rhel6.noarch.rpm/download
- Dependencies:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/rhel6-deps/
- PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/barman/1.6.1
- pgespresso on PostgreSQL Extension framework (PGXN):
http://pgxn.org/dist/pgespresso/
- pgespresso RPM/Debian packages:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/pgespresso/
- Online documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation
- PDF documentation:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.6.1/barman-tutorial.en.pdf/download

About

BARMAN (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open source administration
tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It
allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers
in business critical environments and help DBAs during the recovery
phase. Barman's most requested features include backup catalogues,
incremental backup, retention policies, remote backup and recovery,
archiving and compression of WAL files and backups. Barman is
distributed under GNU GPL 3.

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Giulio Calacoci - 2ndQuadrant Italia
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
giulio(dot)calacoci(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it | www.2ndQuadrant.it