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. -- Giulio Calacoci - 2ndQuadrant Italia PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support giulio.calac...@2ndquadrant.it | www.2ndQuadrant.it -- Sent via pgsql-announce mailing list (pgsql-announce@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-announce
