May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Although Barman can be installed via sources or through pip—Python's main package manager, the easiest way to install Barman is by using the software package manager of your Linux distribution.
Currently, 2ndQuadrant maintains packages for RHEL, CentOS 6/7, Debian, and Ubuntu systems. If you are using a different distribution or another Unix system, you can follow the instructions written in the official documentation of Barman, available at http://docs.pgbarman.org/.
In this book, we will cover the installation of Barman 2.3 (currently the latest stable release) on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Linux servers.
If you are using RHEL or CentOS 7 on the malcolm server, you need to install the following repositories: