Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-networkopen source software for backup and recovery of data for a large set ofoperating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS). This presentation will givean overview about what Bareos is and how to use its components. It will alsohighlight the latest stable features and present the roadmap for the nextrelease. The Bareos project stated in 2010 as a fork of Bacula. Since then, lots offeatures have been introduced or enhanced, like Python-Plugin-Interface,VMware Plugin, Always Incremental, SCSI Crypto support, bareos-webui ... This presentation will give a general overview about what Bareos is and how itcan be used. It will highlight some of the unique features, tells what is currently indevelopment and the roadmap for the next releases.