Barman v2.9 released, Barman PostgreSQL database is backup and disaster recovery manager. This release introduces native support for PostgreSQL 12, including significant changes to the management of Point-In-Time-Recovery and Replicas way. For PostgreSQL 11 and earlier, Barman recovery.conf still use the traditional method based on the (run-time) option is mapped to underlying PostgreSQL system its configuration and operation, while using new GUC in PostgreSQL 12 and future versions.
Barman v2.9 provides experimental support for the JSON output, promote integration with external monitoring and management tools also include various UI improvements and bug fixes.
The main updates are as follows:
- Support PostgreSQL 12
- Add --bwlimit command-line option to set the backup and restore commands bandwidth limits
- If the most recent backup WAITING_ FOR_WALS, the command is ignored WAL archive failed inspection
- Add --target-lsn option to use the version of PostgreSQL 10 or higher to recover the recovery target command log sequence number
- Conflict occurs when adding --spool-dir option to the barman-wal-restore, so that the user can change the location of the spooling directory from the default position, so as to avoid multiple PostgreSQL instances appear on the same server
- The barman_ xlog directory rename barman_wal
- JSON output writer will command output is exported as JSON objects, in order to facilitate integration with external tools and systems (This is experimental in this release)