Meet BART – A New Tool for Backup And Recovery Management
EnterpriseDB recently launched a new tool for backup and recovery – named simply EDB Backup and Recovery Tool, or BART . This tool makes the DBA’s life easier by simplifying the tasks for managing their Postgres physical backup and recovery tasks, whether they are PostgreSQL or Postgres Plus Advanced Server deployments. BART has the following advantages over custom scripts for managing backups: 1. It’s stable and it uses the tool pg_basebackup to take a physical backup. This tool has been well defined and is well-supported by the PostgreSQL community. 2. It catalogs all of the backups users are taking, which is important in terms of: i. Listing the type of backups used ii. Listing the status of those backups with server information. 3. BART also provides functionality to restore backups, with all required archived WAL files. So automation around this tool will make DBAs’ lives easier for restore and recovery. 4. BART provides an option to validate your backup