Bareos – News and Announcements.

Nov 29 2023

Bareos joins Open Invention Network

Bareos GmbH & Co. KG strengthens Commitment to Open Source Collaboration by Joining the Open Invention Network.

Bareos GmbH & Co. KG, a leading provider of open-source data backup and recovery solutions, proudly announces its membership in the Open Invention Network (OIN), underscoring the company’s dedication to fostering collaboration and innovation within the open-source community. The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool committed to protecting the open-source ecosystem. By joining this network, Bareos GmbH & Co. KG demonstrates its commitment to providing a secure and collaborative environment for developers, users, and partners.

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Oct 27 2023

Bareos Backup Friday: new postgresql plugin

In this series of videos we will present fundamentals to deploy and operate Bareos environments to protect your data. Today Co-Founder Philipp will talk about the all new postgresql plugin, why we made it, how to migrate from the previous one and technical details how it works.

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Aug 4 2023

FrOSCon 18 on 5. and 6. August 2023

Meet the Bareos team at the FrOSCon open-source conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

Jul 24 2023

Workshops: Bareos Part 1 and 2 in September

Together with our certified training partner Stephan we offer two online workshops “Bareos Part 1 and Part 2” in English language. Part 1 takes place from September 4 to 8, Part 2 from September 11 to 14, 2023. Both courses are half-day workshops.

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May 5 2023

Bareos Backup Friday: Bareos Installation

In this series of videos we will present fundamentals to deploy and operate Bareos environments to protect your data. Today Co-Founder Philipp will demonstrate how easy it is to install Bareos on a windows server OS.

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Mar 29 2023

World Backup Day: free testing and discounts

March 31 is World Backup Day, a good enough reason to review your own backup strategy. Are you satisfied with your software? Or are you looking for a new solution? To find out more about Bareos, you can test the packages from our subscription repository free of charge in your own environment. The offer is valid until Easter!

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Mar 27 2023

Bareos Mainenance Release 22.0.3 and 21.1.7

Three month after the release of Bareos 22 we have just published bugfix releases 22.0.3 and 21.1.7. to our subscription and to our GitHub repository. We recommend to update your installations accordingly.

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Mar 3 2023

Bareos Backup Friday: Bareos Installation

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Dec 21 2022

Bareos 22 released

We have just published a new major version of our Open Source backup solution. Among other things, the Bareos 22 release contains an enhanced VMware plugin, major performance improvements, and a technical preview of the new Checkpoints feature.

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Dec 19 2022

Bareos updates the Release Policy for Community Binaries

Bareos was founded ten years ago to continue the Open Source nature of this enterprise grade project for backup, archiving and recovery. We are strongly committed to continuing our work in the very same spirit, and working jointly with our community. Starting with the new release (Bareos 22), we’re updating our release policy to enhance user experience, and streamline project efforts.

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Dec 12 2022

Happy Anniversary: Bareos is 10 years old

10 years ago, on 12/12/12, we started Bareos GmbH & Co. KG with two full-time developers to offer professional services for the Bareos project: subscription, support, consulting and co-funding of feature development. Time to look back and celebrate!

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Nov 17 2022

Bareos 21.1.5 and 20.0.8: Maintenance Releases

In November 2022, we released Bareos 21.1.5 and 20.0.8. The two maintenance releases are available for download in the repositories for subscription customers. As always, the source code is available in our GitHub repository.

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Oct 10 2022

Bareos and Kubernetes: New Technical Whitepaper

We have published a new technical whitepaper about Bareos and Kubernetes. It shows how to back up stateful Kubernetes (K8s) applications: Data Protection for Kubernetes: Application-aware Backups with Bareos.

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Sep 23 2022

Bareos continues support for Univention Corporate Server

Even though there will be no Bareos update for UCS 5 in the Univention App Center, you can still install our backup solution on this distribution. We will also be happy to create an individual support offer for anyone who wants to switch.

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Aug 9 2022

Bareos 21.1.4, 20.0.7, and 19.2.13: Maintenance Releases

We’ve released Bareos 21.1.4, 20.0.7, and 19.2.13 on August, 5, 2022. All three maintenance releases are available for download in the repositories for subscription customers. As always, the source code is available in our GitHub repository.

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Jul 20 2022

Workshops: Bareos Part 1 and 2 in September

Our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein offers two online workshops “Bareos Part 1 and Part 2” in English language. Part 1 takes place from September 5 to 9, Part 2 from September 13 to 15, 2022. Both courses are half-day workshops.

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Jun 15 2022

Bareos at OpenExpo Europe 2022

The Bareos team will be at OpenExpo Europe 2022 in Madrid on June 30. We will be represented with a booth at the trade fair. Frank Kohler will also give a presentation: “Bareos—Digital Sovereignty built in Germany”.

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Mar 16 2022

Bareos 21.1.0, 20.0.6, and 19.2.9: Maintenance Releases

We’ve released Bareos 21.1.0, 20.0.6, and 19.2.9. All three maintenance releases are available for download in the repositories for subscription customers. As always, the source code is available in our GitHub repository.

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Mar 15 2022

World Backup Day: test Bareos for free

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Mar 10 2022

Bareos Online Training: two Dates in March

Our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein once again offers the two online workshops “Bareos Level 1 and Level 2”. Dates for the Bareos online training: March 22 and 23 as well as March 29 and 30, 2022.

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Feb 9 2022

Graphical Interface: Bareos WebUI ACLs

Bareos has a graphical tool for communicating with the Bareos Director. The WebUI is multilingual and provides detailed information about backup jobs, clients, FileSets, pools, volumes, and more. It’s also possible to start backup and restore jobs via the web interface. Our blog series gives an introduction to the Bareos WebUI. In this third episode: ACLs (Access Control Lists).

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Jan 19 2022

End of Life: MySQL as Bareos catalog database

Starting with Bareos 21 (released on December 22, 2021), our Open Source backup solution no longer supports MySQL as Bareos catalog database. It has been marked as deprecated since Bareos 19.2, and in Bareos 20, it was only available when updating existing installations.

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Dec 27 2021

Graphical Interface: Bareos WebUI Modules

Bareos has a graphical tool for communicating with the Bareos Director. The WebUI is multilingual and provides detailed information about backup jobs, clients, FileSets, pools, volumes, and more. It’s also possible to start backup and restore jobs via the web interface. Our new blog series gives an introduction to the Bareos WebUI. In this second episode: introduction to the modules and their functionality.

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Dec 22 2021

Bareos 21 released: Happy Holidays!

With 2021 coming to an end, we are announcing one last major release for Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced). Bareos 21 includes, among other things, a new Universal Linux Client, packages for the EL8 platform, and enhanced IPv6 support.

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Dec 20 2021

Bareos WebUI: Graphical Interface – Installation and Configuration

Bareos has a graphical tool for communicating with the Bareos Director. The WebUI is multilingual and provides detailed information about backup jobs, clients, FileSets, pools, volumes, and more. It’s also possible to start backup and restore jobs via the web interface. Our new blog series gives an introduction to the Bareos WebUI. In this first episode: installation and configuration.

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Dec 3 2021

Digital Sovereignity: More Open Source for the Public Sector

On November 24, 2021, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and The Greens announced that they had reached a deal to implement the traffic light coalition. The upcoming federal government relies on Open Source to push forward the digitization of the administration—something we at Bareos embrace, of course.

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Nov 29 2021

Bareos 20.0.4: Maintenance Releases

We’re happy to announce Bareos 20.0.4. The release includes some new features as well as bug fixes. It’s available for download in the repositories for subscription customers. As usual, all sources are available in our GitHub repository.

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Sep 21 2021

Bareos Repositories: Important Change

As previously announced, the latest link on the Bareos download servers will be removed soon. For several months now, it has been pointing to version 19.2 as a temporary solution, but will shortly be deleted. Read on to find out what’s changing for the Bareos repositories.

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Sep 16 2021

Bareos 20.0.3, 19.2.11, and 18.2.12: three Maintenance Releases

We’ve released Bareos 20.0.3, 19.2.11, and 18.2.12. All three maintenance releases are available for download in the repositories for subscription customers. As always, the source code is available in our GitHub repository.

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Jul 2 2021

bareos-fuse: Virtual File System for Bareos

bareos-fuse (bareosfs) connects to the Bareos Director and presents backup information in a virtual file system. As a result, users can access information about clients, backup jobs, volumes and pools on the command line or via the graphical file manager.

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Jun 17 2021

Work at Bareos: We’re hiring!

We’re hiring – Bareos is looking for software developers and technical support specialists. Are you a software developer with C++/Linux skills? Are you a technical support hero who enjoys solving tricky problems from time to time? Then please get in touch if you want to work at Bareos!

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Jun 16 2021

Bareos 20.0.2 has been released

We’ve just released a new Bareos version with some bug fixes, changes and new features. It’s the second point release of Bareos 20. Packages for Bareos 20.0.2 are available for download in the subscription repository. As always, all sources are available via our GitHub repository.

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Apr 29 2021

SILL List 2020: Bareos once again on French reference List

France has published an updated list of recommendations for Open Source software solutions. Bareos is again included (category sauvegarde, backup) and on the SILL list 2020.

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Apr 8 2021

Bareos Administration, Part I and II – two Workshops coming up

Our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein offers two online workshops on Bareos administration (respectively “Bareos Part I” and “Bareos Part II”) in May (suitable for European and Asian time zones, and June (suitable for European and American east cost timezones) 2021. The first course will take place on May 7, 11, 12, and 16, for a full day. The second workshop is designed as a half-day course instead: Bareos Part I (May 31-June 4, 2021, Monday through Friday) and Bareos Part II (June 8-10, 2021, Tuesday through Thursday).

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Mar 26 2021

New Bareos Plugin enables file-based Qumulo Backups

We have a new Bareos plugin that creates file-based Qumulo backups. Our partner MSP AG from Hamburg developed the extension for our backup software.

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Mar 3 2021

Bareos 20.0.1 released and available for download

The first bugfix release of Bareos 20 is here: Bareos 20.0.1 was released today. Packages are available for download in the subscription repository.

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Jan 15 2021

Online Workshops in English: two Dates in January/February

At the end of January/beginning of February 2021 our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein will once again offer the two online workshops “Bareos Level 1 and Level 2”.

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Dec 16 2020

Bareos 20 is here: It’s Release Time

We’ve just released a new version: Bareos 20 includes, among other things, a new plugin to back up cloud storage objects directly via the S3 interface, a modernized Python API and a preview of the new REST API.

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Dec 15 2020

Bareos 18.2.10 and 19.2.9: two Maintenance Releases

We’ve just released the two maintenance versions 18.2.10 and 19.2.9. They’re available for download in the repositories for subscription customers.

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Nov 2 2020

Bareos Online Workshops in English

At the end of November/beginning of December our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein will once again offer the two online workshops “Bareos Level 1 and Level 2”.

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Aug 14 2020

Developers: Bareos Security Policy and new Plugins

What’s going on in the Bareos universe? Above all, we have a new Security Policy. In addition, we’ve released some new plugins for the Bareos File Daemon, we’ve improved the Storage Daemon and the WebUI.

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Jul 20 2020

Bareos Online Workshops in English

In the first two weeks of September 2020 we’re offering two Bareos online workshops in English. Level 1 takes place from August, 31 to September, 4, Level 2 from September, 8 to 10. Both courses are half-day workshops.

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Jul 10 2020

Bareos Point Releases: 19.2.8, 18.2.9 and 17.2.10 published

We’ve just published three Bareos point releases: 19.2.8, 18.2.9, and 17.2.10. The updates fix two security issues, which – especially in combination with each other – can become a serious problem.

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Jun 24 2020

New Prices for Bareos Subscription and Support

A new Bareos price list for subscription, support, consulting and training is available now. All older price lists are therefore no longer valid.

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May 19 2020

Two Online Workshops: Bareos Administration

In June 2020 we’re offering two online workshops on Bareos. Level 1 takes place from June, 22 to 26, Level 2 from June, 24 to 26. Both courses are half-day workshops.

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May 15 2020

New PostgreSQL Plugin for Bareos released

Our backup solution has a new feature: bareos-filedaemon-postgres-python-plugin implemented in Python. The PostgreSQL plugin for Bareos uses the standard API PostgreSQL backup routines.

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Apr 14 2020

Bareos 19.2.7, 18.2.8, 17.2.9 und 16.2.10: new Versions released

The Bareos team has released new versions of the Open Source backup solution: Bareos 19.2.7, 18.2.8, 17.2.9, and 16.2.10 are available for download on our servers.

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Feb 27 2020

Talk and Exhibition: Bareos at SCaLE 18X

The 18th annual Southern California Linux Expo, SCaLE 18X, will take place on March, 5 to 8, 2020, at the Pasadena Convention Center. The Bareos team will be present as well.

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Feb 4 2020

Bareos 19.2.5 released: new Plugins and tool for converting Bareos catalog

With new plugins for oVirt and Percona XtraBackup and a new tool for converting the Bareos catalog database from MySQL to PostgreSQL, the final version of Bareos 19.2.5 is available.

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Jan 9 2020

Bareos Workshop at opsiconf in March

The opsi – Client Management – Conference opsiconf is taking place in Mainz, March 2-3, 2020. On the first day, Jörg Steffens is offering a 2 hour workshop called “Backup-Strategien mit opsi und Bareos” (“Backup strategies with opsi and Bareos”).

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Jan 6 2020

Bareos Support in French

The company Capensis offers first level support for our Open Source backup solution. This means that Bareos support is now also available in French.

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Dec 19 2019

Bareos 19.2.4: First Release Candidate available

A new oVirt plug-in, client-initiated backups on connection, an improved restore feature for the WebUI and more. Take a look at the first release candidate of the up-coming Bareos 19.2.4.!

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Dec 10 2019

Bareos 18.2.7, 17.2.8 and 16.2.9: New Bug Fix releases

Only a few days now until we will release Bareos 19.2 – stay tuned for more information! In the meantime, we have some other news to share. We’ve just released Bareos 18.2.7, 17.2.8, and 16.2.9 with some bug fixes and improvements.

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Dec 4 2019

Bareos and NetApp are Partners

Bareos GmbH & Co. KG is happy to announce that it has started a technical alliance partnership with Netapp (NASDAQ: NTAP), simplifying backups (on-premises, hybrid, and cloud) for enterprises using NetApp storage systems.

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Oct 9 2019

SILL List 2019: French Government recommends Bareos

We did it again – Bareos is on the SILL list 2019, category Sauvegarde (backup).

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Oct 1 2019

it-sa in Nuremberg: Bareos part of the Exhibition

Europe’s leading trade fair for IT security it-sa will take place in Nuremberg from October, 8 to 10, 2019. Of course, the Bareos team will be there – come, talk to us at it-sa in Nuremberg!

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