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Bareos

Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced

Backup & Recovery ★ 1.3k stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Bareos is a cross-network open-source backup solution forked from Bacula. It preserves and recovers data from disk, tape, and other media, with a web-based management interface.

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Key features

  • Network-wide backup management
  • Web UI for administration
  • Tape and disk support

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++

Is Bareos secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Bareos's latest release (Release/25.1.1). OSV.dev lists 6 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2024-45044, published 2024-09-10 (764 days ago), fixed in 23.0.4, 22.1.6, 21.1.11

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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