BARMAN-CRON(1)

💅 NAME 💅

barman-cron — the Barman Sub-Commands, bestie. that's it, that's the name ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cron
    [ { -h | --help } ]
    [ --keep-descriptors ]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so what this does is it runs your maintenance tasks, like enforcing retention policies or managing WAL files. lowkey essential, highkey underrated. it's giving "someone has to do the chores around here" 💖

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✨ PARAMETERS ✨

• -h / --help — shows you a help message and then dips out. it gives you all the info about how to use the command 🫶
• --keep-descriptors — this one keeps the stdout and stderr streams of the Barman subprocesses connected to the main process. especially useful for Docker-based installations, fr fr. no cap, if you're containerising this, you want this flag 🐳✨

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👑 Author 👑

EnterpriseDB — iconic, we stan 💜

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💀 Copyright 💀

© Copyright EnterpriseDB UK Limited 2011-2026 — yes bestie, all of it, protected 🎀

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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🌈 this was Barman version 3.20, dated Sep 29, 2026, and you're reading BARMAN-CRON(1) like the main character you are 💅✨ bye bestie, go run your maintenance tasks 🦋