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
- multiple backends
- multiple clients and storages possible; Active / passive clients possible
- Backup Clients ('Bareos-FD') available on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS and others
- Python plugin interface, used by the VMWare Plugin and others
- SAN-Backups using NDMP (with DAR/DDAR); NDMP tape support
- Always Incremental Backup scheme
- Encryption
- Scriptable CLI
- web based graphical interface (webui)
- Role-based ACL support for commands and objects
The source code of Bareos is available on https://github.com/bareos/ under the AGPL v3 license. Additionally Bareos offers binary package repositories for the major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.
If you want to contribute something to this repo please read our contribution policy at
If you want to report a security-related problem, please take a look at our security policy.
- https://download.bareos.org
- https://download.bareos.com (Subscription customers)