# Install barman with Homebrew

Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL. Version 3.19.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:barman
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install barman
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:barman
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.19.1
- **Source summary:** Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
- **Homepage:** <https://www.pgbarman.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-27T15:28:03Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- barman (alias)
- barman-cloud-backup (alias)
- barman-cloud-backup-delete (alias)
- barman-cloud-backup-keep (alias)
- barman-cloud-backup-list (alias)
- barman-cloud-backup-show (alias)
- barman-cloud-check-wal-archive (alias)
- barman-cloud-restore (alias)
- barman-cloud-wal-archive (alias)
- barman-cloud-wal-restore (alias)
- barman-wal-archive (alias)
- barman-wal-restore (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.19.1
## Project history and usage

Barman is EnterpriseDB's open-source Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, a Python administration tool for physical backups, WAL archiving, point-in-time recovery, and cloud backup workflows.

### Project history

The upstream README identifies Barman as a disaster-recovery tool for PostgreSQL servers, maintained by EnterpriseDB under GPL-3.0-or-later. It also records that the GitHub repository became the new home starting with version 2.13, replacing the legacy SourceForge repository.

Barman's documentation presents it as a tool for managing backups of multiple PostgreSQL servers in business-critical environments. Over time it has added streaming backup modes, WAL archiving helpers, cloud commands, snapshot support, export/import workflows, and restore features.

### Adoption history

Barman is adopted by PostgreSQL operators who need backup catalogs, retention policies, WAL management, and recoverable physical backups outside the database server itself. Its presence in Linux distributions, Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, PyPI-linked docs, and EnterpriseDB documentation reflects use by both community and commercial PostgreSQL users.

### How it is used

A typical Barman setup defines global and per-server configuration in barman.conf or barman.d snippets, grants PostgreSQL access using credentials such as .pgpass, archives WAL files with barman-wal-archive or streaming, and restores backups through barman restore or cloud restore commands.

### Why package nerds care

Barman is package-nerd significant because it bridges PostgreSQL internals and system packaging: executable families for local and cloud backup, configuration directories, Python dependencies, PostgreSQL client tooling, and credential conventions all have to line up for reliable recovery.

### Timeline

- 2011: EnterpriseDB copyright history begins for Barman.
- Version 2.13: GitHub becomes the new upstream home, replacing the legacy SourceForge repository.
- 2024: Barman 3.12.0 continues the 3.x line with documented configuration and recovery workflows.
- 2026: Barman 3.19 adds and fixes cloud backup restore, cloud WAL restore, export/import, and parallel WAL-related behavior.

### Related projects

- Barman works with PostgreSQL server tools and concepts such as pg_basebackup, pg_receivewal, WAL archiving, archive_command, restore_command, rsync, SSH, object storage, and .pgpass credentials.

### Sources

- <https://docs.pgbarman.org/release/3.12.0/user_guide/configuration.html>
- <https://docs.pgbarman.org/release/3.19.1/user_guide/>
- <https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman/blob/master/README.rst>
- <https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman/blob/master/RELNOTES.md>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for barman. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /etc/barman.conf, ~/.barman.conf, /etc/barman.d/*.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.pgpass

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/barman.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/barman.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation