Stephan Dühr

An informal talk with ReaR, DRLM, and Bareos users about what they would like to get implemented in future ReaR, DRLM, and Bareos versions.

This talk happens at the end of the "Backup and Disaster Recovery" devroom time schedule. This way also new ReaR, DRLM, and Bareos users could first get informed about ReaR, DRLM, and Bareos so that afterwards they could better tell about what enhancements or features they would like to have implemented in future versions.

Other people: Gratien D'haese Johannes Meixner Didac Oliveira Jörg Steffens

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data for all well-established operating systems. Emerged from the Bacula Project in 2010, Bareos was and is actively developed as a fork and enriched with lots of new features. After a short introduction about the Bareos architecture and terminology, this session will introduce how to extend Bareos with Plugins written in Python.

Using plugins makes it possible to extend the Bareos functionality. This allows to backup and restore in an application specific and more flexible and dynamic way than normal file backup. Use cases include database backups, agentless virtual machine backups or LDAP backups. Using Python makes this a lot easier, and with its large library for connectivity and API access it is possible to address a wide range of applications.