Barman 2.18

Version 2.18 - 21 January 2021

Features

• Add snappy compression algorithm support in barman cloud (requires the optional python-snappy dependency).
• Allow Azure client concurrency parameters to be set when uploading WALs with barman-cloud-wal-archive.
• Add --tags option in barman cloud so that backup files and archived WALs can be tagged in cloud storage (aws and azure).
• Update the barman cloud exit status codes so that there is a dedicated code (2) for connectivity errors.
• Add the commands barman verify-backup and barman generate-manifest to check if a backup is valid.
• Add support for Azure Managed Identity auth in barman cloud which can be enabled with the --credential option.

Bug fixes

• Change barman-cloud-check-wal-archive behavior when bucket does not exist.
• Ensure list-files output is always sorted regardless of the underlying filesystem.
• Man pages for barman-cloud-backup-keep, barman-cloud-backup-delete and barman-cloud-check-wal-archive added to Python packaging.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following for their contributions:

• richyen
• stratakis