Installing Bareos

Bareos quickstart - How to install

How to install Bareos: subscribe to the software repositories, install the packages, prepare the database and start the daemons.

Set up a backup client

This article describes how to install the Bareos client software on a Linux and Windows client and how to include a client into your backup.

Univention App Center: Bareos

This is a introduction about how to use the Univention App Center version of Bareos.

Relax-and-Recover with Bareos

How to setup a Linux desaster recovery using REAR (RElax and REcover) and Bareos.

Updating & Upgrading Bareos

Update Bareos (General procedure)

Upgrade from Bacula to Bareos

Upgrade is supported from Bacula version 5.2.x. If you are running any older version of Bacula, please update to 5.2 first (see Bacula documentation).

Bareos and the HeartBleed Bug

The OpenSSL Library has a serious vulnerability called the "Heartbleed" Bug.

Bareos ships the openssl library with the windows installer, so an upgrade of the windows packages is recommended.

Upgrade from Bareos 12.4.x to Bareos 13.2.x

Upgrading from Bareos 12.4.x to 13.2.x is very easy. This article shows how to do it.

Use the new Bareos 13.2 features

This howto covers the new features in Bareos 13.2 and how to use them.

Use the new Bareos 12.4 features

This howto covers the new features in Bareos 12.4 and howto use them.

General

How to participate and contribute to Bareos?

This howto covers, how you can contribute to the Bareos code base and how you can partitcipate at the Bareos project.

How to create a good bug report for bareos

This article shows how to create a bug report when you think that you found a bug.