Bareos Supported Plugins
Bareos offers a growing range of plugins to extend your backup software for databases, hypervisors, virtual machines and cloud services. All plugins are professionally maintained and fully supported for customers with a valid subscription.
Virtualization & disaster recovery
VMware Plugin
The VMware Plugin extends Bareos with VMware-aware backup and restore workflows. It is a Python-based File Daemon plugin and is a good fit for environments where virtual machines need image-based protection instead of simple file backup.
Hyper-V Plugin
The Hyper-V Plugin is a File Daemon plugin for protecting Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It is designed for Hyper-V-specific backup workflows and is part of the Bareos plugin landscape for virtualized environments.
Proxmox Plugin
The Proxmox Plugin is a File Daemon plugin for Proxmox environments. In the documentation it is positioned as a dedicated plugin for Proxmox-based workloads, giving Bareos a platform-specific approach for backup and restore in open virtualization environments.
Barri Plugin
The Barri Plugin is a File Daemon plugin for Bareos disaster recovery workflows on Windows. It is documented as a dedicated Bareos plugin and fits recovery scenarios where more than standard file restore is needed.
Database & directory services
PostgreSQL Plugin
The PostgreSQL Plugin is a Python 3 File Daemon plugin for PostgreSQL clusters. The documentation links it to PostgreSQL cluster backup workflows and notes that it relies on WAL archiving for a complete setup.
MariaDB Plugin
This plugin integrates MariaDB backup workflows into Bareos by using mariabackup. The documentation presents it as a dedicated plugin for full and incremental MariaDB backups.
MSSQL Plugin
The MSSQL Plugin is the Bareos plugin for Microsoft SQL Server database backup workflows. It belongs to the File Daemon plugin family and is documented as the dedicated path for MSSQL protection in Bareos.
MySQL Plugin
The MySQL Plugin is Bareos’ File Daemon plugin entry point for MySQL-related backup workflows. In the documentation it is linked to MySQL backup methods and to related options such as Percona XtraBackup.
Percona XtraBackup Plugin
The Percona XtraBackup Plugin adds Percona-based MySQL backup workflows to Bareos. The documentation presents it as the dedicated plugin for full and incremental backups using Percona XtraBackup.
LDAP Plugin
The LDAP Plugin is a File Daemon plugin for backing up and restoring LDAP server contents. The docs note that it was tested against OpenLDAP and also point out limitations for restoring objects to Active Directory
Cloud, object storage & NAS
Apache Libcloud Plugin
The Apache Libcloud Plugin is a File Daemon plugin for backing up objects from cloud storage through the S3 protocol. The documentation describes it as experimental and notes that restored objects are written back as files on a filesystem rather than directly to object storage.
Qumulo Python by Yuzuy
The Qumulo Python plugin by Yuzuy is a File Daemon plugin for Qumulo clusters. It supports full and incremental backups, snapshot-based workflows, fast scan of changed data, ACL support, and exclusion handling.
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