Bareos Main Reference and Documentation
For information regarding the newest release see the release notes.
- Introduction and Tutorial
- What is Bareos?
- Installing Bareos
- Decide about the Bareos release to use
- Install the Bareos Software Packages
- Prepare Bareos database
- Start the daemons
- Installing Bareos Webui
- Updating Bareos
- Getting Started with Bareos
- Tutorial
- Bareos Webui
- Critical Items to Implement Before Production
- Tasks and Concepts
- Bareos Console
- The Restore Command
- Volume Management
- Automated Disk Backup
- Autochanger & Tape drive Support
- Knowing What SCSI Devices You Have
- Slots
- Multiple Devices
- Device Configuration Records
- Specifying Slots When Labeling
- Changing Cartridges
- Dealing with Multiple Magazines
- Update Slots Command
- Using the Autochanger
- Barcode Support
- Use bconsole to display Autochanger content
- Bareos Autochanger Interface
- Tapespeed and blocksizes
- Tape Drive Cleaning
- Using Tape Drives without Autochanger
- Storage Backends
- Data Spooling
- Migration and Copy
- Always Incremental Backup Scheme
- How to manually transfer data/volumes
- File Deduplication using Base Jobs
- Plugins
- Python Plugins
- Director Plugins
- Storage Daemon Plugins
- File Daemon Plugins
- The Windows Version of Bareos
- Network setup
- Network Connections Overview
- Transport Encryption
- Data Encryption
- NDMP Backups with Bareos
- NDMP Basics
- NDMP Backup in Bareos
- NDMP_BAREOS
- Example Setup for NDMP_BAREOS backup
- Run NDMP Backup
- Run NDMP Restore
- NDMP Copy Jobs
- Limitations
- NDMP_NATIVE
- NDMP Common
- Catalog Maintenance
- Bareos Security Issues
- Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
- Configuration
- Customizing the Configuration
- Configuration Path Layout
- Configuration File Format
- Resource
- Resource Directive
- Resource Directive Keyword
- Upper and Lower Case and Spaces
- Resource Directive Value
- Spaces
- Quotes
- Numbers
- Data Types
- Variable Expansion
- Variable Expansion on Volume Labels
- Variable Expansion in Autochanger Commands
- Variable Expansion in Mount Commands
- Variable Expansion on RunScripts
- Variable Expansion in Mail and Operator Commands
- Names, Passwords and Authorization
- Director Configuration
- Storage Daemon Configuration
- Client/File Daemon Configuration
- Messages Configuration
- Console Configuration
- Monitor Configuration
- Customizing the Configuration
- Developer Guide
- Bareos Developer Notes
- Build And Test Bareos
- Automatic Version Generation
- Releasing Bareos
- Git Workflow
- Message Classes
- Bareos FD Plugin API
- Normal vs Command vs Options Plugins
- Loading Plugins
- loadPlugin
- Plugin Entry Points
- newPlugin(bpContext *ctx)
- freePlugin(bpContext *ctx)
- getPluginValue(bpContext *ctx, pVariable var, void *value)
- setPluginValue(bpContext *ctx, pVariable var, void *value)
- handlePluginEvent(bpContext *ctx, bEvent *event, void *value)
- startBackupFile(bpContext *ctx, struct save_pkt *sp)
- endBackupFile(bpContext *ctx)
- startRestoreFile(bpContext *ctx, const char *cmd)
- createFile(bpContext *ctx, struct restore_pkt *rp)
- setFileAttributes(bpContext *ctx, struct restore_pkt *rp)
- endRestoreFile(bpContext *ctx)
- pluginIO(bpContext *ctx, struct io_pkt *io)
- bool checkFile(bpContext *ctx, char *fname)
- Bareos Plugin Entrypoints
- bRC registerBareosEvents(bpContext *ctx, …)
- bRC getBareosValue(bpContext *ctx, bVariable var, void *value)
- bRC setBareosValue(bpContext *ctx, bVariable var, void *value)
- bRC JobMessage(bpContext *ctx, const char *file, int line, int type, utime_t mtime, const char *fmt, …)
- bRC DebugMessage(bpContext *ctx, const char *file, int line, int level, const char *fmt, …)
- void bareosMalloc(bpContext *ctx, const char *file, int line, size_t size)
- void bareosFree(bpContext *ctx, const char *file, int line, void *mem)
- Platform Support
- Daemon Protocol
- File Services Daemon
- Storage Daemon Design
- Catalog Services
- Configuration Parser
- Storage Media Output Format
- Bareos Porting Notes
- API
- TLS
- PAM
- Tests
- Bareos Memory Management
- TCP/IP Network Protocol
- Director Console Output
- Reservation
- Job Execution
- Python
- PHP
- python-bareos Module
- bareos
- bareos.bsock
- bareos.bsock.connectiontype
- bareos.bsock.constants
- bareos.bsock.directorconsole
- bareos.bsock.directorconsole.DirectorConsole
DirectorConsoleDirectorConsole.argparser_add_default_command_line_arguments()DirectorConsole.argparser_get_bareos_parameter()DirectorConsole.auth()DirectorConsole.call()DirectorConsole.close()DirectorConsole.connect()DirectorConsole.get_cipher()DirectorConsole.get_protocol_version()DirectorConsole.get_tls_psk_identity()DirectorConsole.has_data()DirectorConsole.interactive()DirectorConsole.is_connected()DirectorConsole.is_end_of_message()DirectorConsole.is_tls_psk_available()DirectorConsole.receive_and_evaluate_response_message()DirectorConsole.reconnect()DirectorConsole.recv()DirectorConsole.recv_bytes()DirectorConsole.recv_msg()DirectorConsole.recv_submsg()DirectorConsole.send()DirectorConsole.send_command()
- bareos.bsock.directorconsole.DirectorConsole
- bareos.bsock.directorconsolejson
- bareos.bsock.directorconsolejson.DirectorConsoleJson
DirectorConsoleJsonDirectorConsoleJson.argparser_add_default_command_line_arguments()DirectorConsoleJson.argparser_get_bareos_parameter()DirectorConsoleJson.auth()DirectorConsoleJson.call()DirectorConsoleJson.call_fullresult()DirectorConsoleJson.close()DirectorConsoleJson.connect()DirectorConsoleJson.get_cipher()DirectorConsoleJson.get_protocol_version()DirectorConsoleJson.get_tls_psk_identity()DirectorConsoleJson.has_data()DirectorConsoleJson.interactive()DirectorConsoleJson.is_connected()DirectorConsoleJson.is_end_of_message()DirectorConsoleJson.is_tls_psk_available()DirectorConsoleJson.receive_and_evaluate_response_message()DirectorConsoleJson.reconnect()DirectorConsoleJson.recv()DirectorConsoleJson.recv_bytes()DirectorConsoleJson.recv_msg()DirectorConsoleJson.recv_submsg()DirectorConsoleJson.send()DirectorConsoleJson.send_command()
- bareos.bsock.directorconsolejson.DirectorConsoleJson
- bareos.bsock.filedaemon
- bareos.bsock.filedaemon.FileDaemon
FileDaemonFileDaemon.argparser_add_default_command_line_arguments()FileDaemon.argparser_get_bareos_parameter()FileDaemon.auth()FileDaemon.call()FileDaemon.close()FileDaemon.connect()FileDaemon.get_cipher()FileDaemon.get_protocol_version()FileDaemon.get_tls_psk_identity()FileDaemon.has_data()FileDaemon.interactive()FileDaemon.is_connected()FileDaemon.is_end_of_message()FileDaemon.is_tls_psk_available()FileDaemon.receive_and_evaluate_response_message()FileDaemon.reconnect()FileDaemon.recv()FileDaemon.recv_bytes()FileDaemon.recv_msg()FileDaemon.recv_submsg()FileDaemon.send()FileDaemon.send_command()
- bareos.bsock.filedaemon.FileDaemon
- bareos.bsock.lowlevel
- bareos.bsock.lowlevel.LowLevel
LowLevelLowLevel.argparser_get_bareos_parameter()LowLevel.auth()LowLevel.call()LowLevel.close()LowLevel.connect()LowLevel.get_cipher()LowLevel.get_protocol_version()LowLevel.get_tls_psk_identity()LowLevel.has_data()LowLevel.interactive()LowLevel.is_connected()LowLevel.is_end_of_message()LowLevel.is_tls_psk_available()LowLevel.receive_and_evaluate_response_message()LowLevel.reconnect()LowLevel.recv()LowLevel.recv_bytes()LowLevel.recv_msg()LowLevel.recv_submsg()LowLevel.send()LowLevel.send_command()
- bareos.bsock.lowlevel.LowLevel
- bareos.bsock.protocolmessageids
- bareos.bsock.protocolmessages
- bareos.bsock.protocolversions
- bareos.bsock.tlsversionparser
- bareos.util
- bareos.util.bareosbase64
- bareos.util.password
- bareos.util.path
- bareos.exceptions
- bareos.exceptions.AuthenticationError
- bareos.exceptions.ConnectionError
- bareos.exceptions.ConnectionLostError
- bareos.exceptions.Error
- bareos.exceptions.JsonRpcErrorReceivedException
- bareos.exceptions.JsonRpcInvalidJsonReceivedException
- bareos.exceptions.PamAuthenticationError
- bareos.exceptions.SignalReceivedException
- bareos.exceptions.SocketEmptyHeader
- Webui
- Documentation Style Guide
- Introduction
- reST Overview
- Common Names
- Specific Formatting
- Bareos Specific Formatting
- Gotchas
- Appendix
- Hardware sizing
- Operating Systems
- Bareos Programs
- bareos-dbcopy
- The Bootstrap File
- Verify File Integrity with Bareos
- Backward Compatibility
- Catalog Tables
- Howtos
- Disaster Recovery Using Bareos
- Troubleshooting
- Debugging
- Release Notes
- FAQ
- General Questions
- Bareos 18.2.5 FAQ
- What is the important feature introduced in Bareos 18.2?
- How to update from Bareos 17.2?
- How can I see what encryption is being used?
- What should I do when I get “TLS negotiation failed”?
- How does the compatibility with old clients work?
- Does Bareos support TLS 1.3?
- Are old Bareos clients still working?
- Can I use a new Bareos 18.2 client with my Bareos 17.2 system?
- Bareos Copyright, Trademark, and Licenses
- Copyright information
- Index