I try to recover a barman backup, and I want to use the parameter target-time. But barman does not accept this parameter, even if I use it in the same manner like many sources I found.
The whole output:
barman@BKUP-XXX:~$ barman recover --target-time '2023–04–22 00:00:00.000000+02:00' --remote-ssh-command "ssh postgres@pgdb-XXX" PGDB-XXX 20230416T214125 /var/lib/postgresql/13/main/
Starting remote restore for server PGDB-XXX using backup 20230416T214125
Destination directory: /var/lib/postgresql/13/main/
Remote command: ssh postgres@pgdb-XXX
ERROR: Unable to parse the target time parameter '2023–04–22 00:00:00.000000+02:00': Unknown string format: 2023–04–22 00:00:00.000000+02:00
barman@BKUP-XXX:~$
The string format of the time is unknown. But it's exactly the format used in many examples, no matter if with or without milliseconds or timezone, every time I try is unknown.
Maybe it's a python issue? The server is used only for barman, I don't think, there is another software with interdependencies to barman or python.
How can I use the target-time?
The --target-time option should accept any timestamp allowed by the PostgreSQL recovery_target_time parameter.
Your particular --target-time value is using en dashes (–, UTF-8 code: E2 80 93) instead of hyphens (-, UTF-8 code: 2D). If you replace the dashes with hyphens then the timestamp will be accepted, e.g.: 2023-04-22 00:00:00.000000+02:00.