Barman Server - Not Avaiable

[Umashankar Balasubramaniam]

Hi Team 

We have taken the backup using Barman commands, and now we lost Barman server ( Got crashed), can we still recover the database without using Barman,  if the backup sets are available in storage?  

Thanks & Regards

Uma

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM Umashankar Balasubramaniam
<umasha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> We have taken the backup using Barman commands, and now we lost Barman server ( Got crashed), can we still recover the database without using Barman, if the backup sets are available in storage?

Never happened to me, but essentially barman clones the PGDATA
directory and streams the WALs, so the short answer is "Yes, if you
know what you are doing".
I would rather install another machine with barman and "mount" the
backup sets into such machine (at least in readonly for a try).

Luca

[Martin Marques]

I would add to Luca's message that it clones the PGDATA, but the clone
will have different formats depending on the configuration of Barman.

In any case, if you understand what Barman does at a high level, you
should be able to recover. I surely would be able if I have all
backups and WALs. It's just a matter of mimicking what `barman
restore` does.

Kind regards, Martín

[Umashankar Balasubramaniam]

Thanks to all for your guidance.