Welcome to Bareos Developer Guide’s documentation!

Contents:

• 1. Bareos Developer Notes
  • 1.1. History
  • 1.2. Contributions
  • 1.3. Patches
  • 1.4. Compiling
  • 1.5. Debugging
  • 1.6. Using a Debugger
  • 1.7. Memory Leaks
  • 1.8. When Implementing Incomplete Code
  • 1.9. Header Files
  • 1.10. Programming Standards
  • 1.11. Do Not Use
  • 1.12. Avoid if Possible
  • 1.13. Do Use Whenever Possible
  • 1.14. Indenting Standards
  • 1.15. Tabbing
  • 1.16. Don’ts
• 2. Message Classes
  • 2.1. Memory Messages
  • 2.2. Debug Messages
  • 2.3. Job Messages
  • 2.4. Queued Job Messages
  • 2.5. Error Messages
• 3. Bareos FD Plugin API
  • 3.1. Normal vs Command vs Options Plugins
  • 3.2. Loading Plugins
  • 3.3. loadPlugin
  • 3.4. Plugin Entry Points
  • 3.5. Bareos Plugin Entrypoints
  • 3.6. Building Bareos Plugins
• 4. Platform Support
  • 4.1. General
  • 4.2. Requirements to become a Supported Platform
• 5. Daemon Protocol
  • 5.1. General
  • 5.2. Low Level Network Protocol
  • 5.3. General Daemon Protocol
  • 5.4. The Protocol Used Between the Director and the Storage Daemon
  • 5.5. The Protocol Used Between the Director and the File Daemon
  • 5.6. The Save Protocol Between the File Daemon and the Storage Daemon
• 6. File Services Daemon
  • 6.1. Commands Received from the Director for a Backup
  • 6.2. Commands Received from the Director for a Restore
• 7. Storage Daemon Design
  • 7.1. SD Design Introduction
  • 7.2. SD Development Outline
  • 7.3. SD Connections and Sessions
  • 7.4. SD Data Structures
• 8. Catalog Services
  • 8.1. General
  • 8.2. Sequence of Creation of Records for a Save Job
  • 8.3. Database Tables
• 9. Storage Media Output Format
  • 9.1. General
  • 9.2. Definitions
  • 9.3. Overall Format
  • 9.4. Serialization
  • 9.5. Block Header
  • 9.6. Record Header
  • 9.7. Volume Label Format
  • 9.8. Session Label
  • 9.9. Overall Storage Format
  • 9.10. Examine Volumes
  • 9.11. Unix File Attributes
  • 9.12. Old Deprecated Tape Format
• 10. Bareos Porting Notes
  • 10.1. Porting Requirements
  • 10.2. Steps to Take for Porting
• 11. API
  • 11.1. General
  • 11.2. dot commands
  • 11.3. API Modes
  • 11.4. Bvfs API
• 12. TLS
  • 12.1. Introduction to TLS
  • 12.2. TLS API Implementation
  • 12.3. Bnet API Changes
  • 12.4. Authentication Negotiation
• 13. Bareos Regression Testing
  • 13.1. Setting up Regession Testing
  • 13.2. Running the Regression Script
  • 13.3. Testing a Binary Installation
  • 13.4. Running a Single Test
  • 13.5. Writing a Regression Test
• 14. Bareos Memory Management
  • 14.1. General
• 15. TCP/IP Network Protocol
  • 15.1. General
  • 15.2. bnet and Threads
  • 15.3. bnet_open
  • 15.4. bnet_send
  • 15.5. bnet_fsend
  • 15.6. is_bnet_error
  • 15.7. is_bnet_stop
  • 15.8. bnet_recv
  • 15.9. bnet_sig
  • 15.10. bnet_strerror
  • 15.11. bnet_close
  • 15.12. Becoming a Server
  • 15.13. Higher Level Conventions
• 16. Director Console Output
  • 16.1. object_key_value
  • 16.2. decoration
  • 16.3. messages
  • 16.4. Objects and Arrays
  • 16.5. Example
  • 16.6. Example with 3 level structure
• 17. Smart Memory Allocation
  • 17.1. Installing SMARTALLOC
  • 17.2. Squelching a SMARTALLOC
  • 17.3. Living with Libraries
  • 17.4. SMARTALLOC Details
  • 17.5. When SMARTALLOC is Disabled
  • 17.6. The alloc() Function
  • 17.7. Overlays and Underhandedness
  • 17.8. Test and Demonstration Program
  • 17.9. Invitation to the Hack
• 18. GNU Free Documentation License

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