Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL Tutorial. Barman (backup and recovery manager) is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. Barman can perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments, and helps DBAs during the recovery phase. Barman's most wanted features include: backup catalogues, retention policies, remote recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and of backups. Barman is written and maintained by PostgreSQL professionals 2ndQuadrant.