How To Install barman on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barman.
Install barman on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install barman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install barman
Install barman on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install barman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install barman
How To Uninstall barman on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the barman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove barman
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
