# Bareos Reviews
**Vendor:** Bareos  
**Category:** [Server Backup Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-backup)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Bareos
"Bareos is a fork of the open source project Bacula version 5.2. In 2010 the Bacula community developer Marco van Wieringen started to collect rejected or neglected community contributions in his own branch. This branch was later on the base of Bareos and since then was enriched by a lot of new features." [Bareos has kept track of the features of Opensource Bacula as well as incorporating many features that Bacula Systems rejected - most notably the ability to \_easily\_ backup "mobile" clients across the Internet, rather than fixed clients in the local LAN/WAN] Original author of Bacula and its documentation is Kern Sibbald. We thank Kern and all contributors to Bacula and it’s documentation. We maintain a list of contributors to Bacula (until the time we’ve started the fork) and Bareos in our AUTHORS file.




## Bareos Reviews
  ### 1. The best opensource backup alternative for commercial backup tools

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Şenol . | Founder, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022

**What do you like best about Bareos?**

* Easy to install
* Great documentation
* support for postgres and mysql
* Web UI (integrated)
* Bacula fork, so almost anything in bacula is also working on bareos
* easy to integrate on automations (puppet/Ansible)

**What do you dislike about Bareos?**

* Web UI has no SSO
* is not a %100 veeam alternative
* lack of support for Oracle, DB2 backups
* btrfs drivers
* object storage
* Hypervisor backups (Vmware is limited) Xcp-ng and KVM would be great

**Recommendations to others considering Bareos:**

you can also check bacula and borgbackup.

**What problems is Bareos solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The need of an enterprise backup will be solved immediately. Has a great community, can get any kind of support from community.
If you are planning with Netbackup, commvault, networker you should check Bareos



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## Bareos Features
**Compatibility **
- File Server Backup
- Database Server Backup
- Virtual Machines
- Repository Models

**Functionality**
- Real-time Sync
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Versioning
- Mobile Backup Application

**Functionality**
- Data Backup
- Backup Automation
- Integration
- Diverse Database Handling

**Management**
- Disaster Recovery
- Remote Backup
- Storage Formats
- Scheduled Backups
- On-Demand Restoration

**Management**
- Continuous Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Activity Monitoring

**Compatibility **
- Disk Backup
- Local Backup
- Storage Formats

**Admin**
- Backup Management

**Reporting**
- Activity Monitoring
- Documentation
- Alerts/Notifications

**Compliance**
- Security Standards
- Cloud Data Protection
- Data Deduplication

**Management**
- File Sharing
- Security Standards
- Encrypted Storage

**Agentic AI - Database Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Security**
- Data Encryption
- Security and Compliance
- Deduplication 

**Agentic AI - Server Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Online Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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