Relax-and-Recover

Relax-and-Recover events

Foss Backstage 2024, Berlin, 4 March, 2024

Why is there no new Release? Nobody pays for the basics :-(

The Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) Open Source project exists since 2006 and is now the de-facto standard for automated Linux Disaster Recovery.

A behind-the-scenes look at how a project works for such a long time, what goes well and what could be better, with specific examples and advice for others.

Presentation by Gratien & Schlomo, Download Slides or Watch Video

FOSDEM 2020, Brussels, 1 February 2020

The slides and video of “Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) Basics”

The slides and video of “Relax-an-Recover (ReaR) Mass Deployment”

OSBConf 2018 Conference, Cologne, 26 September, 2018

The slides of the talk of Gratien around “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing with Bareos”.

OSBConf 2018 picture of Gratien


FlossUK Spring Conference, Edinburgh, 26-27 April, 2018

Gratien presented “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing” - no link to movie is published (yet)

Loadays, Wilrijk, 21-22 April, 2018

Gratien talked and gave a demo around “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing”


FrOSCon 2017, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 20 August, 2017

Gratien presented “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing” on Sunday, 20 August 2017 movie of the talk at FrOSCon

CeBIT Open Source Forum 2017, Hannover, 24 March, 2017

Gratien presented “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing” in the Open Source Forum, Hall 3, Stand D35 at 13:45.

Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing from Gratien D'haese


FOSDEM 2017, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2017

Devroom “Backup and Disaster Recovery”. Johannes Meixner and Gratien D’haese gave several presentations around ReaR. Slides and movies are available at the Fosdem.org web-site.

IBM Partner Event, London, 26-27 October, 2016

Presentation was given by Sebastien Chabrolles (IBM France) “Relax-and-Recover”, an Open Source mksysb for Linux on Power

Open Source Backup Conference, Cologne, Germany, 26-27 September, 2016

Presentation was given by Gratien Building a Business Continuity Plan with Bareos and rear


A workshop around rear was also foreseen. We have created on github the rear workshop download section with the scripts of the workshop.

Fosdem 2016, Belgium, 30-31 January 2016

Relax-and-Recover project team members were be present at the booth of bareos from time to time.

CentOS Dojo Brussels, Belgium, Friday 29th January 2016

Presentation by Gratien: Relax-and-Recover simplifies Linux Disaster Recovery

openSUSE Conference 2015, Den Haag, NL

Presentation given by Gratien called Relax-and-Recover simplifies Linux Disaster Recovery, 3 May, 2015


LoaDays 2015, Wilrijk, BE

Presentation given by Gratien on April, 12th, 2015 called Building a Business Continuity Plan with Bareos and rear


T-Dose 2014, Eindhoven, NL

Presentation given by Gratien on October, 25th, 2014 called Building a Business Continuity Plan with Bareos and rear.


Open Source Backup Conference 2014, Cologne, DE

Ralf Dannert (SuSe) presented ReaR for corporate use on Open Source Backup Conference 2014.


LinuxTag 2014, Berlin, DE

Gratien did a Relax-and-Recover Workshop at LinuxTag, and together with Maik Außendorf (Bareos) we had 2 short workshops around Bareos-rear integration.

Open Source Backup Conference 2013, Cologne, DE

Gratien gave a presentation around rear on Open Source Backup Conference 2013.


LinuxTag 2013, Berlin, DE

Relax-and-Recover was present at the LinuxTag in Berlin May 22-25! Schlomo gave the following presentation on Integrating UEFI into Relax-and-Recover


LinuxTag 2012, Berlin, DE

Relax-and-Recover was again present at the LinuxTag in Berlin May 23-26! A big thank you for the enormous success of this event (a lot of people came to our booth and attended the Relax-and-Recover talk and/or Relax-and-Recover workshop

The Relax-and-Recover talk has been placed on-line by OpenSUSE TV.


FlossUK 2012 Spring conference, Edinburgh, UK

Another great conference where we presented the functionality and use-cases Relax-and-Recover offers.

LinuxCon Europe 2011, Prague, CZ

We are grateful to the Linux Foundation for giving us the opportunity to present Relax-and-Recover at LinuxCon Europe 2011 in Prague, CZ. The session included a broad overview of the design and functionality that Relax-and-Recover offers, real-life use-cases and a live demonstration of using Relax-and-Recover with USB boot media.

FOSDEM 2011, Brussels, BE

Gratien gave a presentation about Linux disaster recovery in general and Relax-and-Recover in particular at FOSDEM.

The Relax-and-Recover talk has been placed on-line by FOSDEM.