python-bareos 22.1.4

Client library and tools for Bareos console access.

python-bareos

python-bareos is a Python module to access a http://www.bareos.org backup system.

Packages for python-bareos are included in the Bareos core distribution and available via https://pypi.org/.

Documentation is available at https://docs.bareos.org/DeveloperGuide/PythonBareos.html

Note

By default, the Bareos Director (>= 18.2.4) uses TLS-PSK when communicating through the network.

Unfortunately the Python core module ssl does not support TLS-PSK. For testing python-bareos should be used without TLS. The section Transport Encryption (TLS-PSK) describes how to use python-bareos with TLS-PSK and about the limitations.

Preparations

Create some named consoles for testing:

root@host:~# bconsole
*configure add console name=user1 password=secret profile=operator TlsEnable=no
*configure add console name=user-tls password=secret profile=operator

This creates a console user with name user1 and the profile operator. The operator profile is a default profile that comes with the Bareos Director. It does allow most commands. It only deny some dangerous commands (see show profile=operator), so it is well suited for this purpose. Futhermore, TLS enforcement is disabled for this console user.

For testing with TLS-PSK, we also create the user user-tls.

Examples

Calling bareos-director console commands

>>> import bareos.bsock
>>> directorconsole=bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole(address='localhost', port=9101, name='user1', password='secret')
>>> print(directorconsole.call('help').decode("utf-8"))

This creates a console connection to a Bareos Director. This connection can be used to call commands. These are the same commands as available via bconsole.

To connect to the default console instead, omit the name parameter:

>>> directorconsole = bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole(address='localhost', port=9101, password='defaultconsolepassword')

The result of the call method is a bytes object. In most cases, it has to be decoded to UTF-8.

Simple version of the bconsole in Python

>>> import bareos.bsock
>>> directorconsole = bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole(address='localhost', port=9101, password='secret')
>>> directorconsole.interactive()

Or use the included bconsole.py script:

bconsole.py --debug --name=user1 --password=secret localhost

Use JSON objects of the API mode 2

Requires: Bareos >= 15.2

The class DirectorConsoleJson is inherited from DirectorConsole and uses the Director Console API mode 2 (JSON).

For general information about API mode 2 and what data structures to expect, see https://docs.bareos.org/DeveloperGuide/api.html#api-mode-2-json

Example:

>>> import bareos.bsock
>>> directorconsole = bareos.bsock.DirectorConsoleJson(address='localhost', port=9101, password='secret')
>>> pools = directorconsole.call('list pools')
>>> for pool in pools["pools"]:
...   print(pool["name"])
...
Scratch
Incremental
Full
Differential

The results the the call method is a dict object.

In case of an error, an exception, derived from bareos.exceptions.Error is raised.

Example:

>>> directorconsole.call("test it")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
bareos.exceptions.JsonRpcErrorReceivedException: failed: test it: is an invalid command.

Transport Encryption (TLS-PSK)

Since Bareos >= 18.2.4, Bareos supports TLS-PSK (Transport-Layer-Security Pre-Shared-Key) to secure its network connections and uses this by default.

Unfortenatly, the Python core module ssl does not support TLS-PSK. There is limited support by the extra module sslpsk (see https://github.com/drbild/sslpsk).

Fallback To Unencrypted Connections

In order to work in most cases, even if sslpsk is not available, the DirectorConsole uses a fallback. If connecting via TLS-PSK fails, it falls back to the old, unencrypted protocol version. In this case, a warning is issued, but the connection will work nevertheless:

>>> import bareos.bsock
/.../bareos/bsock/lowlevel.py:39: UserWarning: Connection encryption via TLS-PSK is not available, as the module sslpsk is not installed.
>>> directorconsole=bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole(address='localhost', port=9101, name='user-tls', password='secret')
socket error: Conversation terminated (-4)
Failed to connect using protocol version 2. Trying protocol version 1.
>>> print(directorconsole.call('help').decode("utf-8"))

To enforce a encrypted connection, use the tls_psk_require=True parameter:

>>> import bareos.bsock
/.../bareos/bsock/lowlevel.py:39: UserWarning: Connection encryption via TLS-PSK is not available, as the module sslpsk is not installed.
>>> directorconsole=bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole(address='localhost', port=9101, name='user-tls', password='secret', tls_psk_require=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
bareos.exceptions.ConnectionError: TLS-PSK is required, but sslpsk module not loaded/available.

In this case, an exception is raised, if the connection can not be established via TLS-PSK.

sslpsk

The extra module sslpsk (see https://github.com/drbild/sslpsk) extends the core module ssl by TLS-PSK.

At the time of writing, the lasted version installable via pip is 1.0.0 (https://pypi.org/project/sslpsk/), which is not working with Python >= 3.

If python-bareos should use TLS-PSK with Python >= 3, the latest version must by installed manually:

git clone https://github.com/drbild/sslpsk.git
cd sslpsk
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

python-bareos will detect, that sslpsk is available and will use it automatically. This can be verified by following command:

>>> import bareos.bsock
>>> bareos.bsock.DirectorConsole.is_tls_psk_available()
True

Another limitation of the current sslpsk version is, that it is not able to autodetect the TLS protocol version to use.

In order to use it, specify tls_version with an appropriate protocol version. In most cases this should be tls_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2, like in the following example:

>>> import ssl
>>> import bareos.bsock
>>> directorconsole = bareos.bsock.DirectorConsoleJson(address='localhost', user='user-tls', password='secret', tls_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2)
>>> print(directorconsole.call('help').decode("utf-8"))