The VMware Experts Database program (MS SQL Server and Oracle editions) invites the specially selected industry Experts to contribute to the breath of VMware industry knowledge by presenting sessions at VMware events to and developing white papers. Often these papers are commissioned by VMware (sometimes jointly with other partners) and in this case partial funding

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Over 700 teams actively competed at CloudCredibility.com over the past 12 months. Players build professional connections, enjoy camaraderie & competition, score points, win prizes, and of course – stay current in a very fast-paced environment. But in 2016 one team, LonVMUG – clearly outstripped the competition, amassing both an impressive lineup of high point-scoring members […]

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2ndQuadrant announces the release of Barman version 2.1, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release fixes a few bugs. It also introduces the --archive option to the switch-xlog command, in order to help users during the installation process of a new server.

For a complete list of changes, see the "Release Notes" section below.

Links

• Website
• Download
• Documentation
• Man page, section 1
• Man page, section 5
• Support
• Client utilities for Barman
• pgespresso extension

Release notes

• Add --archive and --archive-timeout options to switch-xlog command
• Preliminary support for PostgreSQL 10 (#73)
• Minor additions:
  • Add last archived WAL info to 'diagnose' output
  • Add start time and execution time to the output of 'delete' command
• Minor bug fixes:
  • Return failure for 'get-wal' command on inactive server
  • Make 'streaming_archiver_names' and 'streaming_backup_name' options global (#57)
  • Fix rsync failures due to files truncated during transfer (#64)
  • Correctly handle compressed history files (#66)
  • Avoid de-referencing symlinks in 'pg_tblspc' when preparing recovery (#55)
  • Fix comparison of last archiving failure (#40, #58)
  • Avoid failing recovery if postgresql.conf is not writable (#68)
  • Fix output of 'replication-status' command (#56)
  • Exclude files from backups like pg_basebackup (#65, #72)
  • Exclude directories from other Postgres versions while copying tablespaces (#74)

Download

• Release Notes
• Sources
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 5 (dependencies)
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6 (dependencies)
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 7 (dependencies)
• PyPI
• pgespresso on PostgreSQL Extension framework (PGXN)
• pgespresso RPM/Debian packages
• barman-cli RPM/Debian packages
• Online documentation
• PDF documentation

About

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help DBAs during the recovery phase.

Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by 2ndQuadrant.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will get things rolling at CES 2017, in Las Vegas, tonight at 6:30 pm Pacific. We won’t spoil any of the CES surprises. But stay tuned. We’ll be live blogging throughout the event. Hit refresh on your browser for updates.

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Have you deployed or are considering vSAN for your vSphere 6.0U2 or 6.5 environment? If so, you should know about VMware’s new VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for vSAN 1.0 released last week. The vSAN management pack is specifically designed to accelerate time to production with vSAN, optimize application performance for workloads running on vSAN

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The advent of mobile phones put enormous amounts of computing power in the hands—quite literally—of end users. &#rsquo;Anyness&#rdquo; (any app, any device, anywhere) is now expectation, but it needs to happen in a secure way. Several recent technological advances have made this possible, including mobile device management (MDM, aka freedom from being domain joined). And […]

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