Barman v2.8 - Now Available

2ndQuadrant today announced the release of Barman version 2.8, introducing
support for incremental backup in geo-redundancy. It also includes various
performance enhancements and bug fixes.
Barman 2.8 deprecates support for PostgreSQL 9.3 and older versions, and
declares official support for Python 3 - deprecating Python 2.

Barman [https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/barman/] (Backup and
Recovery Manager) is an open source administration tool for managing backup
and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers. It allows you to perform
remote backups of multiple servers in business-critical environments and
helps DBAs during the recovery phase.

This release includes performance enhancements and other changes listed
below:

- Add support for reuse_backup in geo-redundancy for incremental backup
copy in passive nodes
- Improve performance of rsync based copy by using strptime instead of the
more generic dateutil.parser
- Add --test option to barman-wal-archive and barman-wal-restore to verify
the connection with the Barman server
- Complain if backup_options is not explicitly set, as the future default
value will change from exclusive_backup to concurrent_backup when
PostgreSQL 9.5 will be declared EOL by the PGDG
- Display additional settings in the show-server and diagnose commands:
archive_timeout, data_checksums, hot_standby, max_wal_senders,
max_replication_slots and wal_compression.
- Merge the barman-cli project in Barman

We strongly recommend upgrading to Barman v2.8 at the earliest opportunity
available.

Upgrade Information
Users of rsync backup method on a primary server should set backup_options
to either concurrent_backup (recommended for PostgreSQL 9.6 or higher) or
exclusive_backup (current default) before upgrading to Barman 2.8.

A complete list of changes and bug fixes is available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/2.8/

Download and installation instructions are available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/2.8/

Source files are available for download here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/2.8/barman-2.8.tar.gz/download

Barman is developed and maintained by 2ndQuadrant and distributed under GPL
v3.

For more information, please send an email to info(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com

Monica Real Amores
Marketing & Communications
2ndQuadrant
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
monica(dot)realamores(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com | www.2ndquadrant.com