Replacing VMware? Why Incus + Bareos is the Great Open-Source Backup Solution

What is Incus? Incus is a community-led open-source fork of Canonical’s LXD. It is a manager for virtual machines, system containers and application containers, and can be used both on local machines and in larger clustered environments. In this video, Benjamin Somers from IMT Atlantique presents the new Bareos plugin for Incus. The plugin brings Bareos backup and restore workflows to Incus containers and virtual machines and is planned for the upcoming major Bareos release. Benjamin explains how the idea started, why backup was needed for his own Incus infrastructure and how the plugin works. The talk covers streaming container backups, full and incremental backups, restore workflows and the chunk-based approach used for large VM disk images. Bareos: https://www.bareos.com/ Incus: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/ IMT Atlantique: https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en Bareos Expert Circle: https://www.bareos.com/meet/ Timelines (Chapters) 00:00 Introduction and speaker background 03:13 What is Incus? 09:44 Incus demo: containers from the command line 13:31 Why Bareos entered the picture 18:28 New Bareos-Incus Plugin 19:48 How container backups work 20:56 How VM incremental backups work 23:32 Why VM restores are harder 26:53 What comes next: NBD, partial restores and more Incus objects 30:51 Q&A: macOS, LXD fork and plugin internals #Bareos #Incus #OpenSourceBackup #Virtualization #LinuxContainers #VMwareAlternative