Client/File Daemon Configuration
The Client (or File Daemon) Configuration is one of the simpler ones to specify. Generally, other than changing the Client name so that error messages are easily identified, you will not need to modify the default Client configuration file.
For a general discussion of configuration file and resources including the data types recognized by Bareos, please see the Configuration chapter of this manual. The following Client Resource definitions must be defined:
Client – to define what Clients are to be backed up.
Director – to define the Director’s name and its access password.
Messages – to define where error and information messages are to be sent.
Client Resource
The Client Resource (or FileDaemon) resource defines the name of the Client (as used by the Director) as well as the port on which the Client listens for Director connections.
Start of the Client records. There must be one and only one Client resource in the configuration file, since it defines the properties of the current client program.
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/var/lib/bareos (platform specific) |
- Absolute Job Timeout
- Type:
- Since Version:
14.2.0
Absolute time after which a Job gets terminated regardless of its progress
- Allow Bandwidth Bursting
- Type:
- Default value:
no
This option sets if there is Bandwidth Limiting in effect if the limiting code can use bursting e.g. when from a certain timeslice not all bandwidth is used this bandwidth can be used in a next timeslice. Which mean you will get a smoother limiting which will be much closer to the actual limit set but it also means that sometimes the bandwidth will be above the setting here.
- Allowed Job Command
- Type:
This directive filters what type of jobs the filedaemon should allow. Until now we had the -b (backup only) and -r (restore only) flags which could be specified at the startup of the filedaemon.
Allowed Job Command can be defined globally for all directors by adding it to the global filedaemon resource or for a specific director when added to the director resource.
You specify all commands you want to be executed by the filedaemon. When you don’t specify the option it will be empty which means all commands are allowed.
The following example shows how to use this functionality:
All commands that are allowed are specified each on a new line with the Allowed Job Command keyword.
The following job commands are recognized:
- backup
allow backups to be made
- restore
allow restores to be done
- verify
allow verify jobs to be done
- estimate
allow estimate cmds to be executed
- runscript
allow runscripts to run
Only the important commands the filedaemon can perform are filtered, as some commands are part of the above protocols and by disallowing the action the other commands are not invoked at all.
If runscripts are not needed it would be recommended as a security measure to disable running those or only allow the commands that you really want to be used.
Runscripts are particularly a problem as they allow the Bareos File Daemon to run arbitrary commands. You may also look into the
Allowed Script Dir (Fd->Client)
keyword to limit the impact of the runscript command.
- Allowed Script Dir
- Type:
This directive limits the impact of the runscript command of the filedaemon.
It can be specified either for all directors by adding it to the global filedaemon resource or for a specific director when added to the director resource.
All directories in which the scripts or commands are located that you allow to be run by the runscript command of the filedaemon. Any program not in one of these paths (or subpaths) cannot be used. The implementation checks if the full path of the script starts with one of the specified paths.
The following example shows how to use this functionality:
- Always Use LMDB
- Type:
- Default value:
no
- Since Version:
deprecated
Ensure that bareos always chooses the lmdb backend for accurate information regardless of the file list size. Use LmdbThreshold = 0 instead.
- Enable kTLS
- Type:
- Default value:
no
If set to “yes”, Bareos will allow the SSL implementation to use Kernel TLS.
- FD Address
- Type:
- Default value:
9102
This record is optional, and if it is specified, it will cause the File daemon server (for Director connections) to bind to the specified IP-Address, which is either a domain name or an IP address. If it is not specified, the File Daemon will bind to both IPv6 and IPv4 default addresses (the default).
- FD Addresses
- Type:
- Default value:
9102
Specify the ports and addresses on which the File daemon listens for Director connections. Probably the simplest way to explain is to show an example:
where ip, ip4, ip6, addr, and port are all keywords. Note, that the address can be specified as either a dotted quadruple, or IPv6 colon notation, or as a symbolic name (only in the ip specification). Also, the port can be specified as a number or as the mnemonic value from the /etc/services file. If a port is not specified, the default will be used. If an ip section is specified, the resolution can be made either by IPv4 or IPv6. If ip4 is specified, then only IPv4 resolutions will be permitted, and likewise with ip6.
- FD Port
- Type:
- Default value:
9102
This specifies the port number on which the Client listens for Director connections. It must agree with the FDPort specified in the Client resource of the Director’s configuration file.
By default, the Client will listen to both IPv6 and IPv4 default addresses on the port you set. If you want to listen on either IPv4 or IPv6 only, you have to specify it with either
FD Address (Fd->Client)
, or removeFD Port (Fd->Client)
and just useFD Addresses (Fd->Client)
instead.
- FD Source Address
- Type:
- Default value:
0
If specified, the Bareos File Daemon will bind to the specified address when creating outbound connections. If this record is not specified, the kernel will choose the best address according to the routing table (the default).
- Heartbeat Interval
- Type:
- Default value:
0
Optional and if specified set a keepalive interval (heartbeat) on the sockets used by the defined Bareos File Daemon.
See details in Heartbeat Interval - TCP Keepalive.
- LMDB Threshold
- Type:
File count threshold after which bareos will use the lmdb backend to store accurate information.
Warning
The lmdb backend is currently not able to handle long paths. Use with caution.
- Maximum Bandwidth Per Job
- Type:
The speed parameter specifies the maximum allowed bandwidth that a job may use.
- Maximum Concurrent Jobs
- Type:
- Default value:
1000
- Since Version:
deprecated
This directive specifies the maximum number of Jobs that should run concurrently. Each contact from the Director (e.g. status request, job start request) is considered as a Job, so if you want to be able to do a status request in the console at the same time as a Job is running, you will need to set this value greater than 1.
- Maximum Network Buffer Size
- Type:
This directive specifies the initial network buffer size to use. If not specified the operating system will choose an acceptable size. Otherwise it will be adjusted down if it is too large until it is accepted by the OS. Please use care in setting this value since if it is too large, it will be trimmed by 512 bytes until the OS is happy, which may require a large number of system calls. The default value is 256 KiB.
This size is ultimately also used for the read buffer size on the client.
Note, on certain Windows machines, there are reports that the transfer rates are very slow and this seems to be related to the default size. On systems where the transfer rates seem abnormally slow compared to other systems, you might try setting the Maximum Network Buffer Size to 32,768 in both the File daemon and in the Storage daemon.
- Maximum Workers Per Job
- Type:
- Default value:
2
- Since Version:
23.0.0
The maximum number of worker threads that bareos will use during backup.
Note
These worker threads are mostly used to compute checksums, and to compress & encrypt data. If this is set to at least 1, bareos will use a separate thread for sending data.
- Name
- Required:
True
- Type:
The name of this resource. It is used to reference to it.
The client name that must be used by the Director when connecting. Generally, it is a good idea to use a name related to the machine so that error messages can be easily identified if you have multiple Clients. This directive is required.
- Pki Cipher
- Type:
- Default value:
aes128
PKI Cipher used for data encryption.
See the Data Encryption chapter of this manual.
Depending on the openssl library version different ciphers are available. To choose the desired cipher, you can use the PKI Cipher option in the filedaemon configuration.
The available options (and ciphers) are:
aes128
aes192
aes256
camellia128
camellia192
camellia256
aes128hmacsha1
aes256hmacsha1
blowfish
They depend on the version of the openssl library installed.
For decryption of encrypted data, the right decompression algorithm should be automatically chosen.
- Pki Encryption
- Type:
- Default value:
no
Enable Data Encryption.
See Data Encryption.
- Pki Key Pair
- Type:
File with public and private key to sign, encrypt (backup) and decrypt (restore) the data.
See Data Encryption.
- Pki Master Key
- Type:
List of public key files. Data will be decryptable via the corresponding private keys.
See Data Encryption.
- Pki Signatures
- Type:
- Default value:
no
Enable Data Signing.
See Data Encryption.
- Pki Signer
- Type:
Additional public/private key files to sign or verify the data.
See Data Encryption.
- Plugin Directory
- Type:
This directive specifies a directory in which the File Daemon searches for plugins with the name
<pluginname>-fd.so
which it will load at startup. Typically on Linux systems, plugins are installed to/usr/lib/bareos/plugins/
or/usr/lib64/bareos/plugins/
.
- Plugin Names
- Type:
If a
Plugin Directory (Fd->Client)
is specified Plugin Names defines, which File Daemon Plugins get loaded.If Plugin Names is not defined, all plugins get loaded, otherwise the defined ones.
Warning
It is highly recommended to always specify the Plugin Names directive to keep control about what plugins will be loaded by the filedaemon. Some plugins cannot be loaded at the same time, like the python2 and python3 plugins.
- Scripts Directory
- Type:
- Default value:
/usr/local/lib/bareos/scripts (platform specific)
Path to directory containing script files
- SD Connect Timeout
- Type:
- Default value:
1800
This record defines an interval of time that the File daemon will try to connect to the Storage daemon. If no connection is made in the specified time interval, the File daemon cancels the Job.
- Secure Erase Command
- Type:
- Since Version:
15.2.1
Specify command that will be called when bareos unlinks files.
When files are no longer needed, Bareos will delete (unlink) them. With this directive, it will call the specified command to delete these files. See Secure Erase Command for details.
- TLS Allowed CN
- Type:
“Common Name”s (CNs) of the allowed peer certificates.
- TLS Cipher List
- Type:
Colon separated list of valid TLSv1.2 and lower Ciphers; see “openssl ciphers” command. Leftmost element has the highest priority.
- TLS Cipher Suites
- Type:
Colon separated list of valid TLSv1.3 Ciphers; see “openssl ciphers -s -tls1_3” command. Leftmost element has the highest priority. Currently only SHA256 ciphers are supported.
- TLS DH File
- Type:
Path to PEM encoded Diffie-Hellman parameter file. If this directive is specified, DH key exchange will be used for the ephemeral keying, allowing for forward secrecy of communications.
- TLS Enable
- Type:
- Default value:
yes
Enable TLS support.
Bareos can be configured to encrypt all its network traffic. See chapter TLS Configuration Directives to see how the Bareos Director (and the other components) have to be configured to use TLS.
- TLS Key
- Type:
Path of a PEM encoded private key. It must correspond to the specified “TLS Certificate”.
- TLS Require
- Type:
- Default value:
yes
If set to “no”, Bareos can fall back to use unencrypted connections.
- TLS Verify Peer
- Type:
- Default value:
no
If disabled, all certificates signed by a known CA will be accepted. If enabled, the CN of a certificate must the Address or in the “TLS Allowed CN” list.
- Working Directory
- Type:
- Default value:
/var/lib/bareos (platform specific)
This directive is optional and specifies a directory in which the File daemon may put its status files.
On Win32 systems, in some circumstances you may need to specify a drive letter in the specified working directory path. Also, please be sure that this directory is writable by the SYSTEM user otherwise restores may fail (the bootstrap file that is transferred to the File daemon from the Director is temporarily put in this directory before being passed to the Storage daemon).
The following is an example of a valid Client resource definition:
Client { # this is me
Name = rufus-fd
}
Director Resource
The Director resource defines the name and password of the Directors that are permitted to contact this Client.
configuration directive name |
type of data |
default value |
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no |
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required |
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9101 |
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- Address
- Type:
Director Network Address. Only required if “Connection From Client To Director” is enabled.
- Allowed Job Command
- Type:
- Allowed Script Dir
- Type:
- Connection From Client To Director
- Type:
- Default value:
no
- Since Version:
16.2.2
Let the Filedaemon initiate network connections to the Director.
For details, see Client Initiated Connection.
- Connection From Director To Client
- Type:
- Default value:
yes
- Since Version:
16.2.2
This Client will accept incoming network connection from this Director.
- Enable kTLS
- Type:
- Default value:
no
If set to “yes”, Bareos will allow the SSL implementation to use Kernel TLS.
- Maximum Bandwidth Per Job
- Type:
The speed parameter specifies the maximum allowed bandwidth that a job may use when started from this Director. The speed parameter should be specified in k/s, Kb/s, m/s or Mb/s.
- Monitor
- Type:
- Default value:
no
If Monitor is set to no, this director will have full access to this Client. If Monitor is set to yes, this director will only be able to fetch the current status of this Client.
Please note that if this director is being used by a Monitor, we highly recommend to set this directive to yes to avoid serious security problems.
- Name
- Required:
True
- Type:
The name of the Director that may contact this Client. This name must be the same as the name specified on the Director resource in the Director’s configuration file. Note, the case (upper/lower) of the characters in the name are significant (i.e. S is not the same as s). This directive is required.
- Password
- Required:
True
- Type:
Specifies the password that must be supplied for a Director to be authorized. This password must be the same as the password specified in the Client resource in the Director’s configuration file. This directive is required.
- Port
- Type:
- Default value:
9101
- Since Version:
16.2.2
Director Network Port. Only used if “Connection From Client To Director” is enabled.
- TLS Allowed CN
- Type:
“Common Name”s (CNs) of the allowed peer certificates.
- TLS Cipher List
- Type:
Colon separated list of valid TLSv1.2 and lower Ciphers; see “openssl ciphers” command. Leftmost element has the highest priority.
- TLS Cipher Suites
- Type:
Colon separated list of valid TLSv1.3 Ciphers; see “openssl ciphers -s -tls1_3” command. Leftmost element has the highest priority. Currently only SHA256 ciphers are supported.
- TLS DH File
- Type:
Path to PEM encoded Diffie-Hellman parameter file. If this directive is specified, DH key exchange will be used for the ephemeral keying, allowing for forward secrecy of communications.
- TLS Enable
- Type:
- Default value:
yes
Enable TLS support.
Bareos can be configured to encrypt all its network traffic. See chapter TLS Configuration Directives to see how the Bareos Director (and the other components) have to be configured to use TLS.
- TLS Key
- Type:
Path of a PEM encoded private key. It must correspond to the specified “TLS Certificate”.
- TLS Require
- Type:
- Default value:
yes
If set to “no”, Bareos can fall back to use unencrypted connections.
- TLS Verify Peer
- Type:
- Default value:
no
If disabled, all certificates signed by a known CA will be accepted. If enabled, the CN of a certificate must the Address or in the “TLS Allowed CN” list.
Thus multiple Directors may be authorized to use this Client’s services. Each Director will have a different name, and normally a different password as well.
The following is an example of a valid Director resource definition:
#
# List Directors who are permitted to contact the File daemon
#
Director {
Name = HeadMan
Password = very_good # password HeadMan must supply
}
Director {
Name = Worker
Password = not_as_good
Monitor = Yes
}
Messages Resource
There must be at least one Message resource in the Client configuration file.
Please see the Messages Resource Chapter of this manual for the details of the Messages Resource.
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Example Client Configuration File
An example File Daemon configuration file might be the following:
#
# Bareos File Daemon Configuration file
#
#
# List Directors who are permitted to contact this File daemon
#
Director {
Name = bareos-dir
Password = "aEODFz89JgUbWpuG6hP4OTuAoMvfM1PaJwO+ShXGqXsP"
}
#
# Restricted Director, used by tray-monitor to get the
# status of the file daemon
#
Director {
Name = client1-mon
Password = "8BoVwTju2TQlafdHFExRIJmUcHUMoIyIqPJjbvcSO61P"
Monitor = yes
}
#
# "Global" File daemon configuration specifications
#
FileDaemon { # this is me
Name = client1-fd
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
# remove comment in next line to load plugins from specified directory
# Plugin Directory = /usr/lib64/bareos/plugins
}
# Send all messages except skipped files back to Director
Messages {
Name = Standard
director = client1-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
}