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-The former individual Bareos repositories have been merged together
-into this repo. Each of the old repos has now its own subdirectory:
+# <img src="https://github.com/bareos/bareos-webui/blob/master/public/img/bareos.png" alt="Bareos" />
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bareos/bareos.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bareos/bareos/branches)
+
+### Bareos
+
+[Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced)](https://www.bareos.org/) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data for all well-established operating systems. Features of Bareos include amongst others:
+
+- True open source software; no open-core or other restrictions; License AGPLv3 
+- network based
+- backends include Ceph, Gluster, S3
+- multiple clients and storages possible; Active / passive clients possible
+- Backup Clients ('Bareos-FD') available on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD 
+- Python plugin interface
+- SAN-Backups using NDMP (with DAR/DDAR); NDMP tape support 
+- Always Incremental Backup scheme
+- VMWare Plugin 
+- Encryption
+- Scriptable CLI
+- web based graphical interface (webui)
+- Role-based ACL support for commands and objects
+
+The source code of Bareos is available on https://github.com/bareos/ under the AGPL v3 license. Additionally Bareos offers binary package repositories for the major Linux distributions as well as for MacOS and Windows.
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+  * [http://doc.bareos.org](http://doc.bareos.org)
+
+### Contribute
+
+If you want to contribute something to this repo please read our contribution
+policy at
+
+  * https://www.bareos.org/en/howto-contribute.html
+
+### Mailingslists
+
+The Bareos project offers two mailing lists: bareos-users and bareos-devel.
+
+ * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bareos-users
+ * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bareos-devel
+
+### Bugtracker
+
+  * [https://bugs.bareos.org](https://bugs.bareos.org)
+
+### Packages
+
+  * [http://download.bareos.org](http://download.bareos.org)
 
-| old repo       | subdirectory|
-|----------------|-------------|
-| bareos         | core        |
-| bareos-webui   | webui       |
-| bareos-regress | regress     |
-| bareos-docs    | docs        |