rbarman

rbarman - Ruby Wrapper for 2ndQuadrant's PostgreSQL backup tool barman

Installation

barman has to be installed and configured on the same host where this gem is to be used, otherwise it cannot get any useful information about your backups ;)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rbarman'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rbarman

Usage

Just a few examples. Please read the documentation for more details.

Get all your backups!

This will call various barman commands and some other sources (backup.info, xlog.db) to get information about your backups and could take several minutes (and memory) if you have many backups with thousand of wal files.

servers = RBarman::Servers.all({:with_backups => true, :with_wal_files => true })
servers.count
=> 3

servers[0].name
=> "pgmaster"

servers[0].ssh_cmd
=> "ssh [email protected]"

servers[0].backups.count
=> 2

servers[0].backups.each { |b| p "id: #{b.id} }
=> "id: 20130304T080002"
=> "id: 20130225T192654"
=> "id: 20130218T080002"

backups = servers[0].backups
backups.latest.id
=> "20130304T080002"

backups.oldest.id
=> "20130218T080002"

backups[0].status
=> :done    # :started, :failed, :empty

backups[0].backup_start.to_s
=> "2013-03-04 08:00:02 +0100"

backups[0].backup_end.to_s
=> "2013-03-04 16:46:28 +0100"

backups[0].size
=> 201071500850 # bytes

backups[0].wal_file_size
=> 41875931136  # bytes

backups[0].timeline
=> 1

backups[0].begin_wal.xlog
=> "0000058F"

backups[0].end_wal.segment
=> "000000A5"

backups[0].wal_files.count
=> 9019

backups[0].wal_files[1022].compression
=> :bzip2

Get just one backup without wal files

backup = RBarman::Backup.by_id('pg_master', '20130225T192654')
p "id: #{backup.id}|size: #{backup.size / (1024 ** 3) } GB|wal size: #{backup.wal_file_size / (1024 ** 3)} GB"
=> "id: 20130225T192654|size: 217GB|wal size: 72 GB"

Create a backup

Creates a new backup (and probably takes some time)

b = RBarman::Backup.create('server')
p b.id
=> "20130304T131422"

Delete a backup

This instructs barman to delete the specified backup

backup = RBarman::Backup.by_id('server', '20130225T192654', { :with_wal_files => false })
p backup.deleted
=> false
backup.delete
p backup.deleted
=> true

Recover a backup

Recovers newest/latest backup to the specified path on the remote host

RBarman::Backups.all('testdb').latest.recover('/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main', 
    { :remote_ssh_cmd => 'ssh [email protected]' })

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

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Written by Holger Amann, sponsored by Sauspiel GmbH

Release under the MIT License