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News, tutorials, and insights about Onesimus and backup management.
Where Does My Storage Go? — The Backup Admin's Blind Spot
You manage 50 clients. You have 3 pools. Storage is growing. Your boss asks: “Where does our backup storage actually go?” You open bconsole. You run …
Dev Log #8: See Your Schedules — Gantt Timelines and Weekly Planner
When do your backups actually run? If you have more than ten schedules, the answer is probably “I’m not sure.” Bareos schedules are powerful — …
Dev Log #6: The Restore Wizard — Recovery Made Visual
Restoring files is the entire point of backups. And yet, in bconsole, a restore involves memorizing a sequence of commands, navigating a text-based file …
Dev Log #7: First Community PR — The Bareos Team Joins In
Five weeks into development. The codebase is public, the README is written, the build instructions are tested. And then — the first pull request from outside. …
Setting Up TLS Certificates for Bareos with Onesimus
Securing your Bareos Director connection is essential — especially when managing backups across networks. Onesimus supports both TLS-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) and …
Dev Log #5: Windows, Linux, macOS — One Codebase
Building a cross-platform C++ application in 2026 is still harder than it should be. This week we merged the Windows and Linux development branches into a …
Dev Log #4: Configuration Wizards — Teaching Onesimus Your Setup
Bareos configuration is powerful. It’s also a minefield of typos, forgotten directives, and “I thought that was the right keyword” moments. …
Introducing Onesimus: A Modern UI for Bareos
Managing backups with Bareos typically means staring at bconsole output or navigating the built-in WebUI. Both get the job done, but neither feels like a tool …
Dev Log #3: Run, Browse, Filter — Job Management Gets Real
Two weeks of core development and the job management widget has evolved from a simple table into a proper operations center. Run Job: One Click, Full Defaults …
Dev Log #2: 6 Languages on Day 12
Day 12 of development. The core widgets — Jobs, Clients, Storage — are taking shape. And already, Onesimus speaks six languages. Why i18n This Early? Most …
Dev Log #1: First Successful Bareos Connection
Two weeks in. The first commit was January 17th — a blank Qt6 window with a dream. Today, Onesimus successfully authenticated against a live Bareos Director for …