How To Install barman on CentOS 8

barman is Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on CentOS 8.

What is `barman`

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows your organization to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help DBAs during the recovery phase.

We can use yum or dnf to install barman on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barman.

Install barman on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install barman using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install barman

Install barman on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install barman using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install barman

How To Uninstall barman on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the barman package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove barman

barman Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/barman
/etc/barman/barman.conf
/etc/barman/conf.d
/etc/barman/conf.d/passive-server.conf-template
/etc/barman/conf.d/ssh-server.conf-template
/etc/barman/conf.d/streaming-server.conf-template
/etc/cron.d/barman
/etc/logrotate.d/barman
/usr/bin/barman
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/barman
/usr/share/man/man1/barman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/barman.5.gz
/var/lib/barman
/var/log/barman

References

barman website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.