Bareos ist ein ehemaliger Fork von Bacula und stellt eine Open-Source Backuplösung auf Enterpriseniveau dar. Die neuste Version 17.2, aktuell 17.2.4, wurde am 14.12.2017 veröffentlicht.

Bareos 17.2 Highlights

• Optimierung der Datenbank
• mehr Performance beim Backup von Millionen  und mehr Dateien
• Backup über NDMP Protokol
• NDMP 2-Wege Backup möglich
• LanAddress Feature für direktes Backup vom Client zum lokalen Storage
• Verbesserungen in der WebUI mit Verlaufsbar jedes einzelnen Jobs
• Slowenisch, Türkisch und Tschechisch Support
• Backup in Amazon S3 Storage

Bareos 17.2.4 Release Notes

• Bareos Distribution (packages)
  • python–bareos is included in the core distribution.
  • bareos–storage–droplet is a storage backend for the droplet library. Most notably it allows backup and restores to a S3 environment. Included as beta since version 17.2.4. Don’t use in productive environment!
  • bat has been removed, see section bat.
  • platforms:
    • Windows Clients are still supported since Windows Vista.
    • MacOS: added to build chain.
    • Bareos File Daemon is ready for HP-UX 11.31 (ia64).
    • Linux Distribution: Bareos tries to provide packages for all current platforms. For details, refer to Packages for the different Linux platforms.
  • Linux RPM packages: allow read access to /etc/bareos/ for all users (however, relevant files are still only readable for the user bareos). This allows other programs associated with Bareos to also use this directory.
• Denormalization of the File database table
  • The denormalization of the File database table leads to enormous performance improvements in installation, which covering a lot of file (millions and more).
  • For the denormalization the database schema must be modified. Please note! Updating the database to schema version ≥ 2170 will increase the required disk space. Especially it will require around twice the amount of the current database disk space during the migration.
  • The Filename database table does no longer exists. Therefore the .bvfs_* commands do no longer output the FilenameId column.
• NDMP_NATIVE support has been added. This include the NDMP features DAR and DDAR. For details see NDMP_NATIVE.
• Updated the package bareos–vmware–plugin to utilize the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.5.x. This includes support for VMware vSphere^®; 6.5 and the next major release (except new features) and backward compatible with VMware vSphere^®; 5.5 and 6.0. For details see VMware Plugin.
• Soft Quota: automatic quota grace period reset if a job does not exceed the quota.
• bareos–dbcheck: disable all interactive questions in batch mode.
• list files: also show deleted files (accurate mode).
• list jobstatastics: added.
• purge : added confirmation.
• list volumes: fix limit and offset handling.
• Ticket #629 Windows: restore directory attributes.
• Ticket #639 tape: fix block size handling, AWS VTL iSCSI devices
• Ticket #705 support for MySQL 5.7
• Ticket #719 allow long JSON messages (has been increased from 100KB to 2GB).
• Ticket #793 Virtual Backups: skip jobs with no files.

Quelle: https://www.bareos.org/en/news/bareos-17-2-published-348.html