Starting from Barman 1.6.1, PostgreSQL standby servers can rely on an "infinite" basin of WAL files and finally pre-fetch batches of WAL files in parallel from Barman, speeding up the restoration process as well as making the disaster recovery solution more resilient as a whole.
The master, the backup and the standby
Before we start, let's define our playground. We have our PostgreSQL primary server, called angus. A server with Barman, called barman and a third server with a reliable PostgreSQL standby, called chris - for different reasons, I had to rule out the following names bon, brian, malcolm, phil, cliff and obviously axl. ;)
angus is a high workload server and is continuously backed up on barman, while chris is a hot standby server with streaming replication from angus
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