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