One of the first things we may need to do upon logging in to a new Barman server is to figure out what it's backing up. We could check the /etc/barman.d folder for a list of files, but this isn't always the best approach. Why not just ask Barman itself with the list-server parameter? We created another server on our test system and can see them both listed here:
Now that we have a list of servers, we can dig into each individually if necessary. Barman also provides an all keyword, which substitutes for a server name in any command that expects this information. Hence, we could either list all backups that exist for one server ...