From their FAQ (http://www.pgbarman.org/faq/ http://www.pgbarman.org/faq/): Does barman manage replication and high availability as well? How does it compare wi

From their FAQ (http://www.pgbarman.org/faq/ http://www.pgbarman.org/faq/): Does barman manage replication and high availability as well? How does it compare with repmgr, OmniPITR, walmgr and similar tools? No. barman aims to be a pure disaster recovery solution. It is responsible for the sole backup of a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. If high availability is what you are looking for, we encourage you to use repmgr. barman specifically targets the DR case only