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In addition to the master branch of our software, our development team maintains the three latest major releases (currently 19.2, 18.2, and 17.2). If there is a maintenance release, we usually ship binary packages for the major branches to our subscription customers. However, if such a release fixes a critical issue, we may consider releasing binary packages to the general public.
As always: Bareos is Open Source software, so all sources are available to anyone who wants to build their own packages. If you find a security-related problem in Bareos, please don't hesitate to get in touch and drop us an email: security@bareos.org. We'll try to reply within two days.
We've been working on various plugins for the Bareos File Daemon that runs on the client machines:
The bareos-storage-droplet backend can be used to access object storage through libdroplet. The Bareos package bareos-storage-droplet
has become obsolete, since the droplet backend is now part of Bareos. Also, it now supports RHEL 8.
Our graphical web interface has some new features as well:
python-bareos
and bareos-fuse
are now availble via the Python Package Index (PyPI) which means users can easily install them with the pip install
command. python-bareos
is a Python module to interact with Bareos, It communicates directly with the Director and allows access to the console commands. bareos-fuse
can be used to access Bareos information and backups as a virtual filesystem on Linux systems.
More detailed information is now available for various commands. We've implemented a new bconsole
command called status configuration
which shows deprecated and problematic configurations of the Bareos Director. All daemons will now display a notification concerning warnings when invoked with -t
. The status
commands (status dir
, status client
, and status storage
) have been extended. They will now notify users and give out warnings if the repective daemon's configuration contains an error.
Starting with Bareos 21, we will no longer support MySQL as catalog database. This is why we published a tool called bareos-dbcopy
some time ago. Please make sure to migrate to PostgreSQL in time.
We have revived the support for Solaris. Bareos now compiles on Solaris 11.4 SPARC and x64. Packages are available in the subscription repositories.
Packages with all new features and fixed bugs are available in our nightly repositories. The source code is available on GitHub. If you have any questions, please check out our mailinglist or get in touch for official Bareos support. We're always looking forward to your feedback!