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BARMAN-CLOUD-BACKUP(1) Version 2.10 BARMAN-CLOUD-BACKUP(1)

NAME

barman-cloud-backup - Backup a PostgreSQL instance and stores it in the Cloud

SYNOPSIS

barman-cloud-backup [OPTIONS] DESTINATION_URL SERVER_NAME

DESCRIPTION

This script can be used to perform a backup of a local PostgreSQL instance and ship the resulting tarball(s) to the Cloud. It requires read access to PGDATA and tablespaces (normally run as postgres user). Currently only AWS S3 is supported.

This script and Barman are administration tools for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python and maintained by 2ndQuadrant.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

URL of the cloud destination, such as a bucket in AWS S3. For example: s3://BUCKET_NAME/path/to/folder (where BUCKET_NAME is the bucket you have created in AWS).
the name of the server as configured in Barman.

OPTIONS

show a help message and exit
show program’s version number and exit
increase output verbosity (e.g., -vv is more than -v)
decrease output verbosity (e.g., -qq is less than -q)
test connectivity to the cloud destination and exit
profile name (e.g. INI section in AWS credentials file)
gzip-compress the tar files when uploading to the cloud
bzip2-compress the tar files when uploading to the cloud
enable server-side encryption for the transfer. Allowed values: `AES256'|`aws:kms'.
host or Unix socket for PostgreSQL connection (default: libpq settings)
port for PostgreSQL connection (default: libpq settings)
user name for PostgreSQL connection (default: libpq settings)
–immediate-checkpoint
forces the initial checkpoint to be done as quickly as possible
number of subprocesses to upload data to S3 (default: 2)

REFERENCES

For Boto:

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/configuration.html

For AWS:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html.

For libpq settings information:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-envars.html

DEPENDENCIES

boto3

EXIT STATUS

0
Success
Failure

BUGS

Barman has been extensively tested, and is currently being used in several production environments. However, we cannot exclude the presence of bugs.

Any bug can be reported via the Github issue tracker.

RESOURCES

Homepage: <http://www.pgbarman.org/>
Documentation: <http://docs.pgbarman.org/>
Professional support: <http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/>

COPYING

Barman is the property of 2ndQuadrant Limited and its code is distributed under GNU General Public License v3.

Copyright (C) 2011-2019 2ndQuadrant Ltd - <http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/>.

AUTHORS

2ndQuadrant <http://www.2ndQuadrant.com>.

December 5, 2019 Barman User manuals