France has once again confirmed its trust in Bareos by keeping it on the official SILL list for 2025.
SILL – Socle Interministériel de Logiciels Libres – is a catalogue compiled by an interministerial working group in France. It highlights free and open-source software recommended for use in public institutions.
Bareos has been included with the status R (recommandé = recommended) – and continues to be the only listed software in the Sauvegarde Serveur (server backup) category. For example, the French Ministry of Education uses Bareos on thousands of servers in schools and administrations, providing centralized, open-source backup across critical infrastructure.
To be listed on SILL, software must:
- Be fully open source (under an FSF or OSI-approved license)
- Be in use within French public administration
- Have a designated public expert supporting it internally
We’re proud to continue supporting digital sovereignty with open-source, vendor-independent software that’s trusted across Europe.