Bareos is backup and recovery open-source software for mixed IT environments.

Bareos helps organizations back up, restore and manage data across networks, operating systems, storage targets and workloads. It is licensed under AGPLv3 and follows a true open-source approach without open-core restrictions.

Bareos supports Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and other well-established operating systems.

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Key Features

• Open and transparent: Licensed under AGPLv3, with no open-core restrictions.
• Cross-platform: Supports Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and other operating systems.
• Scalable architecture: Designed for many clients, storage daemons and backup targets across networks.
• Flexible storage targets: Store backups on disk, tape and S3-compatible object storage.
• Deduplication-friendly storage: Stores backups in a format optimized for deduplicating storage systems such as ZFS, VDO or btrfs.
• Storage planning: bdedupestimate helps estimate deduplication potential before changing the backup setup.
• Always Incremental backups: Supports an Always Incremental backup scheme for file-based backups.
• Controlled restore: Uses a catalog and WebUI to help teams find, select and restore the right data.
• Access control: Role-based ACL support for commands and objects.
• Encryption: Supports encrypted communication and backup encryption.
• Automation-friendly: Scriptable administration through bconsole and command-line tools.
• Web-based administration: Bareos WebUI provides a graphical interface for administration and restore tasks.
• Extensible plugins: Plugins allow Bareos to support virtual environments, databases and specialized workloads.
• Virtualization support: Plugins are available for workloads such as VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and Proxmox.
• Bare-metal recovery: Supports Linux bare-metal recovery with Relax-and-Recover and Windows disaster recovery with Barri.
• NDMP SAN backups: Supports SAN backups using NDMP with DAR/DDAR.
• Tape support: Supports tape, tape libraries and WORM tape media for long-term retention workflows.
• Just-In-Time Device Reservation: Improves storage device usage in environments with shared devices, tape libraries, autochangers or parallel backup jobs.

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Bareos offers commercial services for organizations using Bareos in production environments.

• Subscription repositories
• Professional support
• Consulting
• Training
• Sponsored development

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Are you a developer passionate about open-source technology? We’re always open to collaborating with skilled professionals, whether freelance or employed, ideally based in Germany or the EU. Reach out to us at jobs@bareos.com or join the discussion on our GitHub Discussions page.

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What's New

Bareos 25 adds new plugins and platform improvements, including extended hypervisor support, Windows disaster recovery workflows, cloud object backup support and improved automation.

Recent additions include:

• Hyper-V Plugin for Microsoft Hyper-V backups
• Proxmox Plugin for Proxmox VE guests
• Bareos Recovery Imager for Windows disaster recovery workflows
• Libcloud Plugin for S3-compatible object backup
• Qumulo Plugin for Qumulo cluster backups
• PCRE2 support for faster regular expression handling on Windows
• Automatic configuration of disk autochangers

For details, see the official release notes:

View Bareos Release Notes

Latest Release Information

For current release information, new features and maintenance updates, please see the official release notes:

View Bareos Release Notes