BARMAN-ARCHIVE-WAL(1)

✨ barman-archive-wal ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, this is the barman-archive-wal manual page — it lives in section 1 of the Barman man pages and it's literally a Barman sub-command. yes, that's the whole NAME situation. short, sweet, iconic. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

archive-wal
    [ { -h | --help } ]
    SERVER_NAME

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the vibe here is: this command goes and fetches WAL files that came in from either the standard archive_command or from streaming replication with pg_receivewal, and then it files them away in that server's WAL archive. putting them in their little forever home, fr fr. 🫶

and here's the cute part — if you've turned on compression in the configuration file, those WAL files get squished down before they get archived. smaller files, same energy, no cap. 🎀

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🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• SERVER_NAME — the name of the server in barman node. that's it, that's the identifier, that's who we're talking about. 💜
• -h / --help — shows you a help message and then bounces (exits). it's giving "here's how to use this command, bestie". genuinely useful, no shame in asking. 🙈

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👑 Author

EnterpriseDB

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🌈 Copyright

© Copyright EnterpriseDB UK Limited 2011-2026

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and that's the whole page, gorgeous — every flag, every param, all of it, nothing skipped. 💖

this was version 3.20, dated Sep 29, 2026 — so when you're out here archiving WALs, just know the source and the date, periodt. go slay your backups. 💅✨