After Barman is installed, we should be able to leverage any of its capabilities using the Barman command-line tool. For now, we will focus entirely on creating a backup, verifying that the new backup exists, and examining its contents.
Barman doesn't just produce backups, it also catalogs them extensively. We will use this to our advantage in this recipe to prove that Barman works as advertised.
Get PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.
Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.
Start your free trial Become a member now