197|191|7||1674304784|7|1674496111|0|Today we have chosen one of the most famous tools worldwide to describe, but that not all the community has the luxury of knowing, so in this text we want to give our opinion about the tool and mention some of its most important specifications to take into account, so we will talk about Bareos, and to begin with we will first define it.

What is Bareos?

It is a fantastic fork of one of the most well-known backup tools on the market, this tool is known as Bacula, and this time we wanted to give our opinion about Bareos.

Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced or also known as (Bareos) is a free code backup solution between networks, this solution presents a license AGPLv vamos3) which allows the user to backup, archive and recover data from the main operating systems that it owns. This backup solution (client-server) consists of different components, which have the ability to communicate with each other securely over the network: Bareos Director, one or more Storage Daemons and File Daemons installed on the clients to be backed up.

The most commonly used storage backends are hard drives and tape libraries; however, Bareos also has a variety of cloud storage for backups, as well as including Gluster, Ceph and Amazon S3. In cases where it is necessary to deal with a media changer, the storage daemon is also capable of controlling that device, and in the event of a restore request the SD identifies the correct data and takes care of sending it back to the File Daemon.

Throughout its existence Bareos has achieved important certifications, among which we can mention the certification obtained under the YES certification program for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES).

Bareos is also fully certified for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (x86_64), RHEL 7.x, RHEL 6.x and RHEL 5.x. It is also available in the Univention App Center catalog, which easily integrates with UCS versions 4.4, 4.3, 4.2 and 4.1. You can find the security software in the official product catalogs: Official SUSE Partner Software Catalog Official RHEL product catalog. Univention App Center catalog

History

In 2010, the developer of the bacula Community, Marco van Wieringen, started a process of collecting contributions from the community that had been rejected or neglected in his own branch, this idea was truly a brilliant idea, since years later it would result in the enrichment of Bareos with different novelties that today position it among the best tools on the market. It is currently in the process of being certified with Oracle Linux, but can be obtained through an exclusive membership order.

Government organizations, public authorities, small and medium sized companies, as well as large DAX and Fortune 500 companies can attest to the reputation that this powerful tool has built for itself.

Bareos has a large number of customers around the world, organizations from almost all sectors worldwide have used this tool to carry out their security backups, and their testimonials of success can be found from their own website. They also have a large worldwide community, which is very helpful to expand knowledge about the tool and get the most out of it, not to mention that it is also an excellent way to meet other users who also interact with the software and can share their opinions and experiences.

One of the main features to highlight about Bareos is the flexibility it offers to the user, besides being extensible, which turns out to be very useful to carry out file backup processes, basically what it does is to make backup copies of the data and restore them at the moment they are needed.

Another feature about Bareos is that most of its plans are subscription and annual payment, which is a remarkable benefit for any user who decides to be part of the community of users worldwide, although the vast majority of similar products offered in the market, can be financed in the same way, Bareos has four different plans, which are offered to the public to meet the need of the user, however their prices may be the biggest impediment for future users who wish to purchase an annual subscription, their prices are in euros and can be high for a large part of the world's population. To end this opinion, we want to give some recommendations to the community in general, so that they can get the most out of this software that we have discussed in this opportunity.

One of the most significant recommendations we would like to suggest to new Bareos users is to take a look at their blog, where they share updated content about the updates they make to the tool. It is also important to be part of the worldwide community of subscribers, to know opinions and experiences of other users who are currently using the system or have already had the opportunity to use it in the past and can give us an objective opinion of this software.

However, we can not miss the opportunity to express our gratitude to the creators of Bareos, and we do this on behalf of the entire community in general that has had the pleasure of using this powerful tool, we feel that we can truly value Bareos as one of the best backup tools today, since by their own merit they have managed to offer the market a quality and extremely efficient product, which has managed to position itself among the top 10 best options to choose in this 2023.

In Conclusion There are many backup tools, and of course it is not easy to highlight one over the others, since all of them contribute to the fulfillment of a single goal "To perform a successful data backup" however, opinions and experiences speak for themselves, therefore Bareos can be one of the best options we have in the market to perform all kinds of backups, data recovery or simply to keep important information protected.