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Barman

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MySQL

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FigureBarmanMySQL
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published118
Spec score · Database Backup Software8.8 (#3)9.1 (#1)
SupportCommunity support is available through a mailing list and GitHub bug tracker; EDB offers 24x7 production support, consulting, and training.MySQL Enterprise technical support provides 24x7 direct access to MySQL support engineers.

Plans

Barman

  • BarmanFree

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MySQL

  • Community EditionPrice not published
  • Community EditionPriced on request
  • Standard EditionPriced on request
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  • Enterprise EditionPriced on request
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  • Cluster Carrier Grade EditionPriced on request
  • Cluster Carrier Grade EditionPrice not published
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  • MySQL Enterprise EditionPriced on request

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In their own words

Barman

Barman is an open-source Python administration tool for PostgreSQL disaster recovery, designed for organizations managing business-critical databases. It supports remote backups of multiple PostgreSQL servers and local or remote recovery, including point-in-time recovery. Backup management includes catalogs, incremental and parallel operations, retention policies, and WAL archiving or streaming. Synchronous WAL streaming supports zero data loss (RPO=0). Remote transfers can use rsync over SSH or pg_basebackup; recovery can run locally or over SSH. Barman integrates with PostgreSQL and standard archiving tools such as tar, and can compress WAL files with bzip2, gzip, or a custom method. GPG encryption for backups and WAL depends on configuration. Immutable storage is supported with a required grace period in the current implementation. Its experimental cloud-streaming method is limited to S3-compatible destinations and does not support encryption or direct restores in Barman. It runs on Linux and UNIX-like systems, uses an INI configuration file, and stores metadata locally. Barman costs nothing and is distributed under GPL-3.

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