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Take our first backup of the PostgreSQL database with rsync using the PostgreSQL native API for non exclusive (concurrent) backup. We set up Barman to receive WAL files from the PostgreSQL database via streaming replication, using a dedicated replication slot.

The main advantages of using the rsync copy method - not visible in the example - are incremental backup using hard links and parallel copy.