Even though Barman can centrally manage backups of several servers that have different versions of PostgreSQL, when it comes to recovery, the same requirements for PostgreSQL's PITR technology apply. In particular, the following:
- You must recover on a server with the same hardware architecture and PostgreSQL version
- Recovery is full, meaning the entire Postgres cluster will be restored (and not a single database)
The use case of this recipe is the following:
- The bon server has been lost forever, due to a permanent hardware failure
- The brian server, having similar characteristics to bon, has been selected for recovery
- The same Linux distribution and PostgreSQL packages have been installed on brian
- Barman will be used to perform ...