The plugin is dedicated to FD so you should use and have a bareos-filedaemon installed where your database are located.
Hope this clarify the situation. By any chance if you found another formulation how to describe the plugin, I'm fine to include your proposal in a PR to update the documentation. On Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 00:41:43 UTC+1 Stefan Harbich wrote: > Hello, > i'd like to back up a remote MariaDB server using the Bareos File Daemon > plugin "bareos-filedaemon-mariabackup-python-plugin" via the > "mariadb-backup" command. I've read that this is only possible if the > database server and the "mariadb-backup" tool are running on the same > server. Is that correct? Since the Bareos server is usually not installed > on the same server as the database server, would that mean that this plugin > "bareos-filedaemon-mariabackup-python-plugin" can't be used at all? Does > that mean I would have to back up all databases remotely via dump using > Bareos? That would be very cumbersome. Have I understood this correctly? > Regards, Stefan Harbich > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/27c05c96-62a6-406a-8dfe-54f9ed84d1e2n%40googlegroups.com.
