Newbie: Problems at install

[Robert]

Hi,

I'm 100% new to Bareos.

I need to set up a simple way to make fast tape backups, the software I use now is not optimized with LTO drives and makes them shoe-shinning.

I installed first postgresql-17.5-2-windows-x64, and then Bareos-24.0.4~pre51.cc5ea4cf7-x64-Release.

I kept everything standard, except for the passwords that were all changed to the same very short one, security is not an issue.

At first,  I could go into the WEB UI and was asked for username and password, without succeeding.

And now, even that fails, the server is not running. net stop bareos-dir and net start bareos-dir did not help. Firewall is opened

A full bareos uninstall and install did not make the WEB UI functional again.

What do I need to do to make it work?

Thanks.

[Birgit Ducarroz]

Hi,

1st of all: is the database running?
systemctl status postgresql

What is the output of

/usr/sbin/bareos-sd -t

/usr/sbin/bareos-fd -t

/usr/sbin/bareos-dir -t

?

[Birgit Ducarroz]

Ah sorry, you installed on windows. Can you post any error messages?

[Robert]

Hi Birgit, 

By looking into the doc, I found out that Bareos does not support tape backup on Windows, so I uninstalled it.

FYI, postgres was running. No error message other than a time out when trying to connect to the Bareos WB UI.

If you have a suggestion for a good free tape backup on Windows, let me know.

Thanks.

[Birgit Ducarroz]

Hi Robert,

What about a test with Linux? Can you  f.ex eliminate windows and install an ubuntu on your server?
Then I could help you with your installation. Bareos is really a very good solution for backuping on tape.

[Jörg Steffens]

Hi Robert,

On 10.07.25 at 11:52 wrote Robert:

> Hi Birgit,
>
> By looking into the doc, I found out that Bareos does not support tape
> backup on Windows, so I uninstalled it.

That is correct, it is not supported. However, there are reports of
successful running Bareos on Windows with tape support (with single tape
drive, no with tape-libraries). However, that is rather a rather
untypical scenario.

Regards,
Jörg

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[Robert]

@Birgit

It's not worth it having to use Linux. I need something Windows.

At the moment, I use Iperius Backup. Not free but cheap considering that I bought it 12 years ago, and that I never had to pay anything to get new releases!

Iperius is really nice, but it's not 100% optimized for LTO-7 backups. It may be one day, I asked their support, but that does not prevent me to look around.

It's plug & play on Windows.

# Jörg

I prefer indeed to avoid something unsupported. I may need to restore backups years later!