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Barman

Backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL

Backup & Recovery ★ 3.3k stars Hard setup GPL-3.0

Barman is a disaster recovery tool for PostgreSQL servers that manages backups and point-in-time recovery. It supports remote backups, retention policies, and WAL archiving.

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Key features

  • Point-in-time recovery
  • Retention policy management
  • Remote backup support

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Active community (3.3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Python
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is Barman secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Barman's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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