On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Borislav Ivanov <bivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If your database is relatively small, I would recommend > http://www.pgbarman.org/. It does binary backup and will take care of your > WAL files. The laster version of pgbarman can also take backups from a slave > using pgespresso extension. Note that pgbarman runs over streaming > replication protocol. I would advise against barman for smaller installations. The setup is complicated and there are too many moving parts (requires SSH hole punching in two directions AND a streaming replication connection). I found WAL-E to be much easier to manage. Regards, Marti