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I have no vested interest either way, but barman does appear to support compression and backup maintenance - it has a built in command for running all maintenance tasks, including compressing backups and moving them to archival storage.

This comes from 2ndQuadrant, so hopefully they will leave the core version as open-source.

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Terminology conflict I think :-) The pg_rman docs call backup retention management "backup maintenance" , and retention management is one of the things on the barman todo list.

As for compression, I think barman does log compression not the backups, but it could simply be that the barman docs [1] are out of date where they say :

"Barman’s most wanted features include: backup catalogues, retention policies, remote recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and of backups."

[1] http://docs.pgbarman.org/

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

You are right. I confirm, currently it is only WAL compression (documentation is up to date). I hope that we can add one between incremental backups and retention policies in version 1.1. Which are part of the most wanted features still. :)

By then, we'd love to have a Debian package too.

Thank you.

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