Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data for all well-established operating systems. Features of Bareos include amongst others:

• True open source software; no open-core or other restrictions; License AGPLv3
• network based
• backends include Ceph, Gluster, S3
• multiple clients and storages possible; Active / passive clients possible
• Backup Clients ('Bareos-FD') available on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD
• Python plugin interface
• SAN-Backups using NDMP (with DAR/DDAR); NDMP tape support
• Always Incremental Backup scheme
• VMWare Plugin
• Encryption
• Scriptable CLI
• web based graphical interface (webui)
• Role-based ACL support for commands and objects

The source code of Bareos is available on https://github.com/bareos/ under the AGPL v3 license. Additionally Bareos offers binary package repositories for the major Linux distributions as well as for MacOS and Windows.

• https://docs.bareos.org

If you want to contribute something to this repo please read our contribution policy at

• https://www.bareos.org/en/howto-contribute.html

If you want to report a security-related problem, please take a look at our security policy.

The Bareos project offers two mailing lists: bareos-users and bareos-devel.

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bareos-users
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bareos-devel

• https://bugs.bareos.org

• http://download.bareos.org