How To Install barman on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman in Fedora 36. barman is Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barman.

Install barman on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install barman

Install barman on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove barman

barman Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).