Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data for all well-established operating systems. Features of Bareos include amongst others:

• True open source software; no open-core or other restrictions; License AGPLv3
• network based
• multiple backends
• multiple clients and storages possible; Active / passive clients possible
• Backup Clients ('Bareos-FD') available on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS and others
• Python plugin interface, used by the VMWare Plugin and others
• SAN-Backups using NDMP (with DAR/DDAR); NDMP tape support
• Always Incremental Backup scheme
• Encryption
• Scriptable CLI
• web based graphical interface (webui)
• Role-based ACL support for commands and objects

The source code of Bareos is available on https://github.com/bareos/ under the AGPL v3 license. Additionally Bareos offers binary package repositories for the major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.

• https://docs.bareos.org

If you want to contribute something to this repo please read our contribution policy at

• https://www.bareos.org/community/

If you want to report a security-related problem, please take a look at our security policy.

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bareos-users

• https://github.com/bareos/bareos/issues

• https://download.bareos.org
• https://download.bareos.com (Subscription customers)