What is Bareos?
Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a widely used open source backup solution that provides efficient and reliable backup, recovery and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Main features of Bareos include:
- Automatic and unattended backups
- Point-in-time restores of single files or entire hard disks
- Client-server architecture, with clients supporting common operating systems like Linux, Windows, macOS
- Backups to hard disks as well as tape drives for long term storage
- Deduplication to save storage space through recognition of unchanged data
- Efficient bandwidth management
- Bareos Director with web UI and command line to configure, manage and monitor all backup jobs
- Automatic verification of backups to ensure data integrity
- Open Source (AGPL) developed over more than 15 years
With its reliability, efficiency and broad ecosystem, Bareos is used by companies, organizations and private users around the world to securely backup and archive important data.
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Duplicati, Bacula, Duplicity, Rsnapshot, CrashPlan, Wasabi, Backer, BackupPC, GS RichCopy 360, Amanda, Areca Backup, Obnam are some alternatives to Bareos.