Bareos

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a backup software, originally forked from the Bacula project. It is network-based, multi-client and very flexible with an architecture oriented towards scalability. Thus the learning curve might be considered somewhat steep. The project is backed by the commercial company Bareos GmbH & Co. KG, based in Germany.

The open-source project site is located at https://www.bareos.com/, the source code is hosted on Github https://github.com/bareos/

Installation

There is a group of packages in AUR that will install the software, but there is some minor manual labour necessary to make it run. It is recommended to use Bareos with PostgreSQL, since use with MariaDB/MySQL was deprecated with version 19.0.

Install the requirements first:

apache Apache Webserver
php7-apache Apache PHP module
postgresql PostgreSQL Database
php7-pgsql PostgreSQL module for PHP

Install the packages from Arch User Repository:

Configuration

Pre-Configuration

Minimal configuration for Apache HTTP Server and PHP:

Follow the steps described in Apache HTTP Server#Using libphp
You will also need to enable the module, to do this, modify and uncomment:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

To use PHP7, you also need to make the following fixes:

# PHP7
#LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so
LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so

LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so
Include conf/extra/php7_module.conf

# bareos-webui
Include conf/extra/bareos-webui.conf

Then enable the postgresql extension in PHP as listed in PHP#PostgreSQL
And enable the gettext extension in PHP

Fixes in /etc/php7/php.ini:

open_basedir = /usr/share/bareos-webui/:/etc/bareos-webui/ 
extension=gettext
extension=pgsql

Minimal configuration for PostgreSQL

Initialize the database by following PostgreSQL#Initial configuration

Make sure both and are enabled and started

Initial setup

These steps mostly follow the Instructions from docs.bareos.org, and include some Arch-specifics.

Setup the Bareos database

$ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/create_bareos_database 
$ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/make_bareos_tables
$ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/grant_bareos_privileges

Copy default configuration files to the directory

# cp -r /usr/share/bareos/config/* /etc/bareos/
# chown -R bareos:bareos /etc/bareos

Set the correct DB driver in the catalog configuration file

Now enable/start , and

Add a user for the webui

to start the interactive management shell, run:

$ bconsole

inside the shell, you get a * as prompt, where you can enter the following commands:

*reload
*configure add console name=admin password=password profile=webui-admin tlsenable=false
*quit

Setup Apache

we need to fix a path in two lines:

in the file add the line:

Include conf.d/extra/bareos-webui.conf

restart Apache

Now you can now login to Bareos Webui at and login using the account you just created with bconsole.

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