[ANNOUNCE] Barman 2.2 Released - Mailing list pgsql-announce

Barman 2.2 Released

Oxford, United Kingdom - July 17, 2017

2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of Barman 2.2. Barman is a Backup and Disaster Recovery Manager for
PostgreSQLdatabases. 

This major release boasts a long awaited feature: the implementation of parallel copy for backup/recovery through the
parallel_jobsoption. This highly anticipated feature allows Barman to perform copies at an accelerated rate, speeding
upthe backup and recovery process for the rsync copy method.  

Subito, long time partners of 2ndQuadrant and sponsors of the Barman project, were happy to participate in early
testingof the parallel copy feature. The Subito Data Team was pleased with the results, stating that "Barman's parallel
backupfeature with 4 parallel jobs doubled transfer rate and cut the backup time by 60% and recovery time by 40%." 

This feature has been a goal of the development team for some time. "Parallel copy fills an important gap for Barman in
verylarge database (VLDB) scenarios, by giving users flexibility and freedom in architecture design to help them reduce
bothbackup and recovery times sensibly," said Gabriele Bartolini, one of the lead developers behind Barman. "This
featuretakes advantage of the code refactoring activity that has been previously performed with 2.0 and 2.1 releases,
includingthe thousands of automated tests that help us make Barman more robust." 

Other notable features in this major release include:

* Support custom WAL size (PostgreSQL 8.4 and up)
* Improve check command
* Add external_configuration to backup_options
* Add --get-wal and --no-get-wal options to barman recover
* Add max_incoming_wals_queue global/server option for the check command
* Documentation improvements

Additionally, several minor bug fixes have also been implemented. Read the full release notes for Barman 2.2 at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/2.2/

Navionics, manufacturer of electronic navigational charts and founding sponsor of the Barman project, migrated its
systemsto PostgreSQL in 2012. With several servers under Barman backup, the Navionics team stated that they are proud
tohave contributed again in the developing of a new Barman release that includes parallel jobs. "We have been a sponsor
ofBarman since the first release because we need a reliable system and disaster recovery [capability] for our
productionservers," stated the Navionics DBA Team. "We are sure that [parallel copy within Barman] will allow us to
havefaster backup and restore for our huge databases." 

About Barman
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Barman is an open-source administration tool for backup and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python.
Itallows organizations to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and help DBAs
duringthe recovery phase. 

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

To learn more about Barman please visit https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/barman/

About 2ndQuadrant
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2ndQuadrant was founded in 2001 by Simon Riggs, a major developer and committer of the PostgreSQL project. As the
largestsingle collective organization of PostgreSQL experts of any company globally, it is 2ndQuadrant's mission to
providethe gold standard of products and services to support PostgreSQL and its continuous growth. Comprised of some of
thebest known developers from around the globe, all members actively contribute to the development of PostgreSQL.