What's the advantage to use barman

[杨华杰]

It seems like a simple command like rsync will be able to backup all the data directory. Why should I use barman? It's the same principle and cost more hard disk space.

[Holger Amann]

http://www.pgbarman.org/about

Does rsync provide that features, too? ;)

[Gabriele Bartolini]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:02:29 +0200, Holger Amann <hol...@fehu.org>
wrote:

On top of what Holger says, if you want, Hua Jie, you can read this set
of slides I presented at the Australian PGDay last February:
http://www.slideshare.net/GabrieleBartolini/postgresql-disaster-recovery-with-barman

Ciao,
Gabriele

P.S.: Trust me, had rsync done all we needed, we would never have
started another project :)
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