In our always-on digital life, it’s refreshing to hit the pause button. Bareos keeps your data safe, giving you the perfect reason to unplug without worries. Spend your day reconnecting with the joys outside the digital sphere – nature, loved ones, or a good book. Embrace the peace of mind, knowing everything digital is secure back home with us. See you offline! #WorldUnpluggingDay #DigitalDetox #Bareos #Enterprise #Backup #OpenSource
With organizations around the world adopting open source strategies Bareos delivers highly scalable backup & archiving solutions for SMB and enterprises. While trying to have an excellent documentation of our product, we’d like to offer an interactive Q&A session for you with our experts: founders, consultants, and support specialists on a variety of topics.
Topics include: deployment use cases / best practises infrastructure options (flash arrays, tape libraries and cloud) availability & resilience design automation / tool integration / deployments / monitoring
This online event takes place on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 17:00 CET / 08:00 AM PT / 16:00 GMT.
To participate, please register with corporate email via link and provide specific topics you’re interested in, please include question(s) in our registration.
Meet the Bareos team at the CLT2024 open-source conference in Chemnitz, Germany. Make sure to attend our introduction lecture about Bareos “Was ist eigentlich Bareos?” on Saturday, 16:00 – Room V2 (in German).
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Mentor Organizations
GSoC, now in its 20th year, is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.
Bareos as a Mentoring Organization
In 2024, Bareos applied for the first time as mentoring organization for GSoC. Here’s why you should be excited:
Diverse Project Ideas: Bareos has curated a list of intriguing project ideas for GSoC 2024. From enhancing backup performance to improving user interfaces, there's something for everyone. Check out the project ideas list to explore the possibilities.
Welcoming Community: Bareos promotes a welcoming and inclusive community. The goal is to bring new contributors into the fold.
How to Get Involved
As Bareos steps into its role as a mentoring organization, we invite you to be part of this exciting journey. If you’re a student and an open-source enthusiast, GSoC 2024 is a great opportunity to develop various skills and get involved in an important open-source project.
The Bareos filedaemon (client) runs per default with administrator/root privileges in order to be able to backup all files. The Filedaemon also is able to execute scripts before and after the backups and restores. In order to perform restores, the filedaemon has the ability to overwrite all files on the client machine. While all of this is required for normal backup and restore operation, certain environments might have higher security requirements. Bareos offers the following options are available to enhance the security and limit the power of the filedaemon:
Limit the directories from where the filedaemon executes scripts. This can be achieved with the configuration directive Allowed Script Dir
Limit the Job Commands that the filedaemon accepts. The Allowed Job Command directive determines which of the existing job commands (backup, restore, verify, estimate and runscript) are allowed. By prohibiting the restore command, the filedaemon will not allow to do restores. Without the runscript command, no runscripts will be executed.
run the filedaemon as non-rootuser with the capabilities CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH. This uses the Linux capabilities mechanism to run as normal user but have the the right to read all files. Writing files will not be possible in this setup.
These security measures can prevent an attacker that gained control over the bareos director to alter the files of the machines being backed up. However, when a restore is required, the filedaemon on the client needs to be reconfigured to allow restores and/or runscripts. Alternatively, a second bareos filedaemon can be started that has a configuration that allows restores.
Usually the amount of restores is much smaller than the backups, so these measures still can enhance the security with relatively little effort and inconvenience.
Tape libraries usually offer an option to insert and remove tape cartridges. Therefore, the libraries have a number of dedicated slots (so called import/export slots or mail slots) that can be accessed from outside of the library without the danger of the operator to collide with the tape robot. Bareos supports this functionality with the bconsole commands import and export commands:
To import tapes into the library, just fill the import/export slots with the tapes and type import.
To export tapes from the library, use export volume=<volumename>
Tapes used by a job can be automatically exported with use of a runscript
For more details, please check the bconsole documentation about import and export console commands.
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.
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.
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.
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 current server OS.
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!
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”.
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.