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pg_arman is a backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL servers able to dodifferential and full backup as well as restore a cluster to astate defined by a given recovery target. It is designed to performperiodic backups of an existing PostgreSQL server, combined with WALarchives to provide a way to recover a server in case of failure ofserver because of a reason or another. Its differential backupfacility reduces the amount of data necessary to be taken betweentwo consecutive backups.

The latest version of this software can be found on the project website athttps://github.com/michaelpq/pg_arman.

Compiling pg_arman requires a PostgreSQL installation to be in placeas well as a raw source tree. Pass the path to the PostgreSQL source treeto make, in the top_srcdir variable:

make USE_PGXS=1 top_srcdir=<path to PostgreSQL source tree>

In addition, you must have pg_config in $PATH.

The current version of pg_arman is compatible with PostgreSQL 9.5 andupper versions.

pg_arman has been tested on Linux and Unix-based platforms.

All the documentation you can findhere.

The test suite of pg_arman is available in the code tree and can belaunched in a way similar to common PostgreSQL extensions and modules:

make installcheck

pg_arman can be distributed under the PostgreSQL license. See COPYRIGHTfile for more information. pg_arman is a fork of the existing projectpg_rman, initially created and maintained by NTT and Itagaki Takahiro.