The software is used by universities across the continent, national and state archives, and municipalities small and large, reports Bareos, the 8-year-old company based in Cologne (Germany) that is the main developer of the eponymous software solution. Public services prefer to have contracts for support, says Mr Kohler. Such contracts cover support for installation, and advise on implementation and setting recovery goals. In addition, the company provides workshops and training.
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
* backends include Ceph, Gluster, S3
* multiple clients and storages possible; Active / passive clients possible
* Backup Clients (‘Bareos-FD’) available on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD
* Python plugin interface
* SAN-Backups using NDMP (with DAR/DDAR); NDMP tape support
* Always Incremental Backup scheme
* VMWare Plugin
* Encryption
* Scriptable CLI
* web based graphical interface (webui)
* Role-based ACL support for commands and objects
See https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/quintillions-records
