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BAREOS(8)		    System Manager's Manual		     BAREOS(8)

NAME
       Bareos -	Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced

SYNOPSIS
       bareos-dir - Director
       bareos-fd - File	daemon or Client
       bareos-sd - Storage daemon
       bconsole	- Console to control Bareos

DESCRIPTION
       Bareos  is  a  set of computer programs that permits you	(or the	system
       administrator) to manage	backup,	recovery, and verification of computer
       data across a network of	computers of different	kinds.	 In  technical
       terms,  it  is a	network	Client/Server based backup program.  Bareos is
       relatively easy to use and  efficient,  while  offering	many  advanced
       storage	management features that make it easy to find and recover lost
       or damaged files.  Due to its modular design, Bareos is	scalable  from
       small single computer systems to	systems	consisting of hundreds of com-
       puters located over a large network.

       Bareos Director service consists	of the program that supervises all the
       backup, restore,	verify and archive operations.	The system administra-
       tor  uses the Bareos Director to	schedule backups and to	recover	files.
       The Director runs as a daemon or	a service (i.e.	in the background).

       Bareos Console services is the program that allows the administrator or
       user to communicate with	the Bareos Director.

       Bareos File services (or	Client program)	is the software	 program  that
       is installed on the machine to be backed	up.  It	is specific to the op-
       erating	system	on  which it runs and is responsible for providing the
       file attributes and data	when requested by the Director.	 The File ser-
       vices are also responsible  for	the  file  system  dependent  part  of
       restoring  the  file  attributes	 and data during a recovery operation.
       This program runs as a daemon on	the machine to be backed up.

       Bareos Storage services consist of the software programs	 that  perform
       the  storage and	recovery of the	file attributes	and data to the	physi-
       cal backup media	or volumes.  In	other words, the Storage daemon	is re-
       sponsible for reading and writing your tapes (or	other  storage	media,
       e.g. files).  The Storage services runs as a daemon on the machine that
       has the backup device.

       Catalog services	are comprised of the software programs responsible for
       maintaining  the	file indexes and volume	databases for all files	backed
       up.  The	Catalog	services permit	the System Administrator  or  user  to
       quickly	locate and restore any desired file. The Catalog services sets
       Bareos apart from simple	backup programs	like tar and bru, because  the
       catalog	maintains  a record of all Volumes used, all Jobs run, and all
       Files saved, permitting efficient restoration  and  Volume  management.
       Bareos utilize PostgreSQL as catalog backend.

CONFIGURATION
       Each  daemon  has its own configuration which must be tailored for each
       particular installation.

SEE ALSO
       <https://www.bareos.org>
       <https://docs.bareos.org>

BUGS
       See <https://github.com/bareos/bareos/issues/>

AUTHOR
       Kern Sibbald

   Contributors
       An enormous list	of past	and former persons who have devoted their time
       and energy to this project -- thanks. See the AUTHORS file in the  main
       Bareos source directory.

COPYRIGHT
       Bareos  is  distributed under a modified	AGPL version 3.0, as described
       in the file LICENSE.txt included	with the source	distribution.

		    Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced	     BAREOS(8)

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