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== WORK IN PROGRESS == | |||
Do not trust this to be accurate yet. | |||
=== Overview === | === Overview === | ||
Bareos is an open-source backup system. | Bareos is an open-source backup system. | ||
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=== Installation === | === Installation === | ||
TODO | TODO<br> | ||
Centos7: | Centos7:<br> | ||
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$sudo yum update -y # Bring system up to date | $sudo yum update -y # Bring system up to date | ||
$sudo yum install bareos bareos-tape bareos-consoleapps | $sudo yum install bareos bareos-tape bareos-consoleapps | ||
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* Device - TODO | * Device - TODO | ||
===== File Daemon===== | |||
* TODO | |||
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* Storage pools? | * Storage pools? | ||
* Database? | * Database? | ||
* LOGGING! Bareos logging is poor. You must specify an extra flag to the daemon to make it give log messages. | |||
* Bareos is picky about quotation in config files. <br>A singlequote character (') gets interpreted as a character rather than quoting / encapsulation. <br>Be careful to only use doublequote characters (") for quoting / encapsulation inside the config files. | |||
* Related to quoting: Be careful not to set up a configuration where bareos is allocated to be able to write more than a disk is able to store, as this will fill up the disk and make bareos fail. <br>(Especially important if your OS has a small seperate partition for it's own files. e.g. /var/lib/bareos/\') | |||
Latest revision as of 12:19, 10 December 2019
WORK IN PROGRESS[edit]
Do not trust this to be accurate yet.
Overview[edit]
Bareos is an open-source backup system. Bareos is a fork of Bacula.
Bareos has a steep learning curve. Bareos is primarily controlled through configuration files and a text console called bconsole.
There are multiple independant components of Bareos:
- Director - Tells other components what to do, handles scheduling.
- File daemon - Accesses files on the machine to be backed up
- Storage daemon - Stores files
- Webui - Optional, provides a web-based GUI overview of the backup. Some very frustrating to use control functionality is provided through a web-based version of bconsole.
Configuration is through structured text config files.
Installation of the bareos package DOES NOT implicitly install all the bareos packages.
ex. bareos-tape must be installed explicitly by the user.
Installation[edit]
TODO
Centos7:
$sudo yum update -y # Bring system up to date
$sudo yum install bareos bareos-tape bareos-consoleapps
Configuration[edit]
Config files are located in /etc/bareos/*.d/*/*.conf
Each component/daemon has its own exclusive config files.
Namespace issues are not resolved. I do not know this yet.
Director[edit]
- Schedule - Defines some time that things might be done
- Pool - ?
- Storage - Defines what part of the storage daemon is talked to.
- Fileset - Defines what files get included/excluded.
- JobDef - Defines a base definition for jobs to use.
- Job - Inherits and overrides JobDef values. Is what gets run.
Storage Daemon[edit]
- Device - TODO
File Daemon[edit]
- TODO
Pitfalls / Traps[edit]
- Bareos will not implicitly create directories.
- Bareos requires permission be given to it to interact with its config files and storage locations.
- Installing Bareos requires the user to EXPLICITLY select certain 'optional' packages for certain expected functionality such as tape or extra console commands.
- Storage pools?
- Database?
- LOGGING! Bareos logging is poor. You must specify an extra flag to the daemon to make it give log messages.
- Bareos is picky about quotation in config files.
A singlequote character (') gets interpreted as a character rather than quoting / encapsulation.
Be careful to only use doublequote characters (") for quoting / encapsulation inside the config files. - Related to quoting: Be careful not to set up a configuration where bareos is allocated to be able to write more than a disk is able to store, as this will fill up the disk and make bareos fail.
(Especially important if your OS has a small seperate partition for it's own files. e.g. /var/lib/bareos/\')
