How To Install barman on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barman.
Install barman on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the barman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove barman
barman Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
