Backup and Recovery Manager (BARMAN) is free and open source backup and recovery tool and is developed by 2ndQuadrant. The barman tool written in python and is currently available for Linux operating systems. The barman supports from PostgreSQL version 8.3 onward and capable of taking backup for different PostgreSQL versions and its completely free. The main features of barman, Remote backup and recovery Backup Multiple PostgreSQL instance into central location Centralized Backup catalogs Incremental backups and Retention policies WAL streaming and compression Environment for this post, pg01 linux server, running PostgreSQL production database server. pg03 linux server, used for Barman(2.1). 1.) Installing Barman : The barman can be installed either using rpm or from source code and can be downloaded from www.pgbarman.org. If you are using RHEL or CentOS, you need to install extra package for EPEL (Extra Package for Enterprise Linux) as superuser or root. [root@pg0