BAREOS(8)

📦 version 25.0.3, in alpine 3.24

💖 BAREOS — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay so real talk, this is BAREOS(8) from the System Manager's Manual — and bestie, you're gonna get it. Also yes, "Bareos" literally stands for Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced. The name is an acronym, slay. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Bareos — Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bareos-dir - Director
bareos-fd - File daemon or Client
bareos-sd - Storage daemon
bconsole - Console to control Bareos

like... four little programs and they run the whole show. iconic. 👑

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Bareos is a set of computer programs that lets you (or, y'know, the system administrator) manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a whole network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms it's a network Client/Server based backup program. And ngl, Bareos is relatively easy to use and efficient, while still offering a bunch of advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover your lost or damaged files. Because of its modular design, Bareos scales — from a tiny single computer system all the way up to systems with hundreds of computers spread over a large network. growth mindset fr fr 💅

🧠 the Director

The Bareos Director service is the program that supervises all the backup, restore, verify and archive operations. The system administrator uses the Bareos Director to schedule backups and to recover files. The Director runs as a daemon or a service (i.e. in the background). main character energy, lowkey. 👑

💬 the Console

The Bareos Console service is the program that lets the administrator or user communicate with the Bareos Director. it's giving walkie-talkie but make it enterprise 📞

🗂️ the File services (Client)

The Bareos File services (or Client program) is the software program installed on the machine to be backed up. It's specific to the operating system on which it runs, and it's responsible for providing the file attributes and data when the Director requests them. The File services are also responsible for the file system–dependent part of restoring the file attributes and data during a recovery operation. This program runs as a daemon on the machine to be backed up. it lives on your machine, respectfully 🫶

💾 the Storage services

The Bareos Storage services are the software programs that perform the storage and recovery of the file attributes and data to the physical backup media or volumes. In other words — and this is the whole vibe — the Storage daemon is responsible for reading and writing your tapes (or other storage media, e.g. files). The Storage services run as a daemon on the machine that has the backup device. tape go brrr 📼✨

📚 the Catalog services

The Catalog services are the software programs responsible for maintaining the file indexes and volume databases for all files backed up. They let the System Administrator or user quickly locate and restore any desired file. The Catalog services are what sets Bareos apart from simple backup programs like tar and bru — because the catalog maintains a record of all Volumes used, all Jobs run, and all Files saved, which permits efficient restoration and Volume management. And Bareos utilizes PostgreSQL as the catalog backend. no cap, that's the upgrade. 🔥

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

Each daemon has its own configuration, and it must be tailored for each particular installation. no copy-paste-and-pray, bestie — every one of them wants its own fit. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read the docs, they're free and they ate 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

See <https://github.com/bareos/bareos/issues/>

found a bug? the issue tracker is right there, go off 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Kern Sibbald

✨ Contributors ✨

An enormous list of past and former persons who have devoted their time and energy to this project — thanks. See the AUTHORS file in the main Bareos source directory. genuinely, thank you for your service 🫶🌸

Bareos is distributed under a modified AGPL version 3.0, as described in the file LICENSE.txt included with the source distribution.

read LICENSE.txt before you get creative, bestie — the license is not a suggestion 💅

and that's the whole page!! 💜 Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced — that's Bareos, section BAREOS(8), and we are so done here. mwah. 🎀✨

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