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	=== Bareos Fork ===		=== Bareos Fork ===
			In February of 2013 a former Bacula community developer released a hostile fork of Bacula.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bareos.org\|title=Bareos}}</ref>
	In 2010 Bacula was forked into the Bareos project by Maik Außendorf, a Bacula contributor, who was dissatisfied with the direction of the Bacula project. Außendorf claims that the fork was prompted by the change to a closed-source license model for the newly created Enterpise version of Bacula and by improvements Außendorf feels were ignored by Bacula author Kern Sibbald.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bareos.org/en/faq/items/why_fork.html\|title=Why have you started a fork from bacula.org?}}</ref> This fork was made public under the name Bareos in early 2013.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Free-Enterprise-Backup-with-Bareos\|publisher=ADMIN Magazine 17/2013 \|title=Better Backups\|accessdate=2013-11-26 }}</ref>

	==== Legal dispute ====		==== Legal dispute ====
	Bacula Systems filed a lawsuit against Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and one of their directors ~~in early December 2013,~~ alleging the Bareos project is violating ] of Bacula Systems SA and engaging in unfair competition.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.baculasystems.com/blog/bacula-systems-sa-files-lawsuit-against-bareos-gmbh-co-kg\|title=Bacula Systems SA files Lawsuit Against Bareos GmbH & Co. KG}}</ref> The Bareos project rejects the claims made by Bacula Systems SA in the lawsuit ~~filing~~.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bareos.org/en/news/items/lawsuite-between-bacula-systems-sa-and-bareos-gmbh-co-kg-copy.html\|title=Lawsuit between Bacula Systems SA and Bareos GmbH & Co. KG}}</ref> The lawsuit is currently ongoing.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://blog.bacula.org/bareos-update/\|title=Bareos Update}}</ref>		In early December 2013, Bacula Systems filed a lawsuit against Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and one of their directors alleging the Bareos project is violating ] of Bacula Systems SA and engaging in unfair competition.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.baculasystems.com/blog/bacula-systems-sa-files-lawsuit-against-bareos-gmbh-co-kg\|title=Bacula Systems SA files Lawsuit Against Bareos GmbH & Co. KG}}</ref> The Bareos project rejects the claims made by Bacula Systems SA in the lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bareos.org/en/news/items/lawsuite-between-bacula-systems-sa-and-bareos-gmbh-co-kg-copy.html\|title=Lawsuit between Bacula Systems SA and Bareos GmbH & Co. KG}}</ref> The lawsuit is currently ongoing.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://blog.bacula.org/bareos-update/\|title=Bareos Update}}</ref>

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==

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Bacula
Developer(s)	Kern Sibbald, and team

Stable release	7.0.5 / July 28, 2014 (2014-07-28)

Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Backup
License	Affero General Public License v3.0
Website	http://www.bacula.org/

Bacula is an open source, enterprise level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator.

Bacula supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS X backup clients, and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries. Administrators and operators can configure the system via a command line console, GUI or web interface; its back-end is a catalog of information stored by MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.

Overview

Bacula is a set of computer programs for managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network—providing a backup solution for mixed operating system environments.

Bacula is open source and released under the AGPL version 3 license with exceptions to permit linking with OpenSSL and distributing Windows binaries.

Bacula is available under a "dual license" (see: Multi-licensing) AGPLv3 or Proprietary license. Several entities offer commercial support for the AGPL "Bacula community version" while Bacula Systems sells various levels of annual support contracts for "Bacula Enterprise Edition", which contains various non-GPL components developed in-house.

In common with other dual license software, components developed for the Bacula Enterprise Edition are released into Bacula Community edition after some period of exclusivity to the proprietary version.

Since April 2002, Bacula has over 2 million downloads, which makes it the most downloaded open source backup program.

Bacula® is a registered trademark of Kern Sibbald.

Features

Bacula's features include:

Network options

TCP/IP - client–server communication uses standard ports and services instead of RPC for NFS, CIFS, etc.; this eases firewall administration and network security
CRAM-MD5 - configurable client–server authentication
GZIP/LZO - client-side compression to reduce network bandwidth consumption; this runs separate from hardware compression done by the backup device
TLS - network communication encryption
MD5/SHA - verify file integrity
CRC - verify data block integrity
PKI - backup data encryption
NDMP - enterprise version plugin

Client-options

POSIX ACL - needed to restore Windows NT ACE's and Samba servers
Unicode/UTF-8 - cross-platform filenames
VSS - calls Microsoft's snapshot service
LVM - pre-script setup for Linux/UNIX snapshot
LFS - backup files larger than 2GiB
raw - backup devices without a filesystem

Backup devices

pooling - allocates backup volumes according to job needs and retention configuration
spooling - writes backup data to spool until target backup medium is allocated so jobs can continue uninterrupted
media-spanning - such as spanning tapes
multi-streaming - write multiple, simultaneous data streams to the same medium
ANSI & EBCDIC - IBM compatibility
Barcodes - reading tape barcodes in libraries
autoloaders - virtually every tape autoloader available (called autochangers in Bacula)
most tape drives, including DDS, DLT, SDLT, LTO-1-6

Client OS

The client software, executed by a "file daemon" running on a Bacula client, supports multiple operating systems

Limitations

Bacula stores backup data in an open and documented yet unique volume format; there are Bacula standalone tools to read/write the backup data (bls, bcopy, bscan, bextract), these tools are not compatible with other Unix backup utilities such as tar or dump.

By default, Bacula's differential and incremental backups are based on system time stamps. Consequently, if you move files into an existing directory or move a whole directory into the backup FileSet after a full backup, those files may not be backed up by an incremental save because they may have old dates. You must explicitly update the date/time stamp on all moved files. Bacula versions starting with 3.0 or later support Accurate backup, which is an option that addresses this issue.

History

Date	Event
January 2000	Project started
April 14, 2002	First release to SourceForge.net (version 1.16)
June 29, 2006	Release 1.38.11 (Final version 1 release)
January 2007	Release 2.0.0
September 2007	Release 2.2.3
June 2008	Release 2.4.0
April 2009	Release 3.0.0
January 2010	Release 5.0.0
September 2010	Release 5.0.3
January 2012	Release 5.2.4
February 2012	Release 5.2.6
June 2012	Release 5.2.9
February 2013	Release 5.2.13
July 2014	Release 7.0.5

Bareos Fork

In February of 2013 a former Bacula community developer released a hostile fork of Bacula.

Legal dispute

In early December 2013, Bacula Systems filed a lawsuit against Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and one of their directors alleging the Bareos project is violating Intellectual property of Bacula Systems SA and engaging in unfair competition. The Bareos project rejects the claims made by Bacula Systems SA in the lawsuit. The lawsuit is currently ongoing.