Bareos is a fork from the nackup project Bacula. For the reasons why the fork was made see https://www.bareos.org/en/faq/why_fork.html It is posible to migrate from Bacula 5.x to Bareos. For the migration of the database there are SQL scripts located at /var/lib/bareos/scripts/ddl/updates You can check the VersionID of your bacula database with the command SELECT VersionID from Version; Bacula 5.2 has the VersionID 14. To upgrade to Bareois 15.2.x apply the scripts *.14_2001.sql *.2001_2002.sql *.2002_2003.sql *.2003_2004.sql top your bacula database. Rename the user "bacula" to "baeros" and adjust your config files accordingly.