barman-get-wal - Man Page
Barman Sub-Commands
Synopsis
get-wal [ { --bzip | -j } ] [ { --gzip | -z | -x } ] [ { -h | --help } ] [ --keep-compression ] [ { --output-directory | -o } OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ] [ { --peek | -p } VALUE ] [ { -P | --partial } ] [ { -t | --test } ] SERVER_NAME WAL_NAME
Description
Retrieve a WAL file from the xlog archive of a specified server. By default, if the requested WAL file is found, it is returned as uncompressed content to STDOUT.
Parameters
- SERVER_NAME
Name of the server in barman node
- WAL_NAME
Id of the backup in barman catalog.
- --bzip2 / -j
Output will be compressed using bzip2.
- --gzip / -z / -x
Output will be compressed using gzip.
- -h / --help
Show a help message and exit. Provides information about command usage.
- --keep-compression
Do not uncompress the file content. The output will be the original compressed file.
- --output-directory / -o
Destination directory where barman will store the WAL file.
- --peek / -p
Specify an integer value greater than or equal to 1 to retrieve WAL files from the specified WAL file up to the value specified by this parameter. When using this option, get-wal returns a list of zero to the specified WAL segment names, with one name per row.
- -P / --partial
Additionally, collect partial WAL files (.partial).
- -t / --test
Test both the connection and configuration of the specified Postgres server in Barman for WAL retrieval. When this option is used, the required WAL_NAME argument is disregarded.
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Author
EnterpriseDB
Copyright
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