Bucardo

Overview

Bucardo is an asynchronous PostgreSQL replication system, allowing for both multi-master and multi-slave operations. It was developed at Backcountry.com primarily by Greg Sabino Mullane of End Point Corporation.

Obtaining Bucardo

The latest version of Bucardo is 3.0.9:

• Bucardo-3.0.9.tar.gz [PGP]

Documentation

Online documentation is available for the following parts of Bucardo:

• Overview of Bucardo
  • A quick overview of Bucardo, explaining what it is and what it is capable of
• Bucardo Frequently Asked Questions
  • Answers to commonly asked questions about Bucardo
• Bucardo
  • The main documentation for Bucardo
• bucardo_ctl
  • A script used to control an existing Bucardo installation
• DBIx::Safe
  • Helper module needed by Bucardo that provides safe versions of DBI database handles
• Test::Dynamic
  • Module to help count tests for Test::More, used by Bucardo's test suite

Licensing

Bucardo (and DBIx::Safe and Test::Dynamic) are released under the BSD license.

Mailing lists

Three Bucardo mailing lists are available:

• Bucardo-announce
  • This is a low volume list used for notices of new versions, important bugs, and security warnings. It is highly recommended that anyone using Bucardo subscribe to this list.
• Bucardo-general
  • Used to discuss any aspect of Bucardo. Bug reports, usage questions, feature requests, and general discussions should be sent to this list.
• Bucardo-commits
  • All commits to the projects are sent to this list as a diff, with one email per commit whenever a push is made to the master branch. Mostly of use those following Bucardo's development.

Development

Bucardo uses Git as a version control system. Bucardo is composed of three separate projects, each of which can be downloaded for local development using git-clone as follows:

git-clone http://bucardo.org/bucardo.git/
git-clone http://bucardo.org/dbixsafe.git/
git-clone http://bucardo.org/testdynamic.git/