#46 Cannot perform backup

[Minh Danh]

Hello

I'm having a problem getting barman run correctly
at the moment i've finished all the needed steps (on barman server and postgres server. 'barman check' says everything is OK)

but as I run 'barman backup db-server', it returns a 'Copying files' message, and seems do nothing else, the message just stays there for long long time
as I look at the log file, I see some lines like these:

2014-05-28 05:37:02,232 barman.backup INFO: Processing xlog segments for pitch6-db
2014-05-28 05:37:02,238 barman.backup INFO: no file found
2014-05-28 05:38:01,502 barman.backup INFO: Processing xlog segments for pitch6-db
2014-05-28 05:38:01,508 barman.backup INFO: no file found

'barman list-backup db-server' returns:

my-db 20140528T052946 - STARTED
my-db 20140527T112156 - STARTED
my-db 20140527T111803 - FAILED
my-db 20140527T111236 - FAILED
my-db 20140527T105809 - FAILED
my-db 20140527T105733 - FAILED
my-db 20140527T100200 - STARTED

[Gabriele Bartolini]

As per mailing list discussion, the user had not properly followed the official documentation. In the specific case, continuous archiving was not working.