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 list volumes. You stare at a wall of text — volume names, bytes, retention dates, pool assignments. After 20 minutes of cross-referencing, you have a rough answer. Maybe.
This is the backup admin’s blind spot. You manage terabytes of data, but you can’t see where it goes.
The problem isn’t the data — it’s the interface
Bareos tracks everything. Every job, every volume, every byte. The data is there. But bconsole was designed for operations, not for insight. It answers “what happened?” but not “where does my storage go?”
The same applies to the built-in WebUI. It lists volumes. It shows job history. But it doesn’t give you a visual answer to the most basic storage question.
What you actually need
A pool overview that shows storage consumption per job and client — visually. Not a table. Not a log. A view that lets you see in 3 seconds what takes 20 minutes in bconsole:
- Which clients consume the most storage?
- Which pools are filling up?
- How is storage distributed across backup levels?
Onesimus Pro — visual storage intelligence
Onesimus Pro will give you a visual pool overview with storage consumption per job and client. It will connect directly to your Bareos Director, read the same data you’d query manually, and present it in a way that makes the answer obvious.
This is a Pro feature on the roadmap. The Community edition is available today — a modern management interface for jobs, clients, schedules, and basic pool/volume listing. Pro builds on that foundation with storage intelligence.
This is question 1 of 5. Every backup admin asks the same 5 questions. Onesimus Pro and Enterprise will answer them — visually.