Bareos - Bacula Fork
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Bareos 15.2
Our 15.2 release candidate has passed all regression and continuous integration tests on all supported platforms. Repositories are avialable here: http://download.bareos.org/bareos/release/15.2/
We are looking forward for your feedback and bugreports, in order to help us to publish a broadly tested 15.2 major release soon.
More than 300k lines of code were modified since 14.2.2, including cleanup, redesign, bugfixes and many new features, here is an excerpt of new stuff:
Bareos VMware Backup Plugin to backup VMware disk image snapshots online and incremental
WebUI for administration tasks and restore file browser
No need of separate db connection, much cleaner architecture and easier setup.
Windows:
Ported command line utilities like bscan, bwild, bregex
Signed Binaries
Thanks to a sponsored development from the payment transaction provider ​cardtech, we support secure erase of recycled storage-files and spool files for compliance reasons
LDAP Plugin to backup LDAP directories which allows single object restore and accurate backup
New Operating Systems supported:
Windows 10
Fedora 21/22
Debian 8, including Systemd support
Univention 4
SLES 11 SP4
Gluster and Ceph plugins to backup cloud storages
Director API to ease scripting of administration tasks
Python plugin interface ported to windows
New director commands
Better debug output in all daemons for automated analyze with for instance logstash -
Their FAQ says that Bacula went partially closed and Bareos was an attempt for a fully open alternative. This is yet another great example of how pure open source protects projects from vendors going bad.
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Well I'm at the login screen, and its doesn't allow me to actually sign in.
It's not presenting an error message or anything, just takes sits at the login screen. . .
Hrm.
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Might have found it, the user you create during installation isn't the web gui user. . .
It has a default user called "user1", doing some testing.
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Got it.
So after you have postgres installed, you can just install the package for your distro.
From that, you run a few commands (of course these are strewn all about) and then reload the config (or reboot the host) and you can sign in.
