Barman - Backup and Recovery manager for PostgreSQL

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers . It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and to help DBAs during the recovery phase. Its features include backup catalogues, incremental backup, retention policies, remote backup and recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and backups.

One of the coolest features of Barman is the backup catalogue, which allows you to list, keep, delete, archive and recover several full backups under the same hood.

Its main features:

• Full hot physical backup of a PostgreSQL server
• Point-In-Time-Recovery (PITR)
• Management of multiple PostgreSQL servers
• Remote backup via rsync/SSH or pg_basebackup (including a 9.2+ standby)
• Support for both local and remote (via SSH) recovery
• Support for both WAL archiving and streaming
• Support for synchronous WAL streaming (“zero data loss”, RPO=0)
• Incremental backup and recovery
• Parallel backup and recovery
• Hub of WAL files for enhanced integration with standby servers
• Management of retention policies for backups and WAL files