BARMAN-PUT-WAL(1)

✨ NAME ✨

barman-put-wal — it's one of the Barman Sub-Commands, bestie 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

put-wal
    [ { -h | --help } ]
    [ { -t | --test } ]
    SERVER_NAME

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: a remote server wants to hand you a WAL file, and your job is to take it and securely save it into the server's incoming directory. That's literally the whole vibe. 🫶

The WAL file comes at you via STDIN, wrapped up all cozy in a tar stream, and it's gotta be travelling with a SHA256SUMS or MD5SUMS file so we can validate it. sha256 is the default hash algorithm, but you can pick md5 when you're setting the archive-command via barman-wal-archive. Your call, your rules 💁

This command is meant to be run via SSH from a remote barman-wal-archive utility — that one ships inside the barman-cli package, iykyk. 🎀

⚠️ Do NOT just run this thing directly unless you fully manage the content of the files. Like, actually fully. No cap. 🙈

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👑 PARAMETERS 👑

• SERVER_NAME — the name of the server in barman node. That's the one, that's the server, periodt. ⭐
• -h / --help — shows you a help message and then dips out (exit). Gives you all the info about how to use the command. Iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨
• -t / --test — runs a vibe check on both the connection and the configuration of the Postgres server you specified in Barman, for WAL retrieval. 🧚 Testing era!

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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, bestie — this was Barman version 3.20, dated Sep 29, 2026, and you just read BARMAN-PUT-WAL(1). slay 💅💖✨