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@@ -15,6 +15,21 @@ \chapter{What is Bareos?}
 design, Bareos is scalable from small single computer systems to systems
 consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network.
 
+\section{History}
+\label{History}
+Bareos is a \elink{fork}{http://www.bareos.org/en/faq/items/why_fork.html} of the open source project 
+\elink{Bacula}{http://www.bacula.org} version 5.2. 
+In 2010 the Bacula community developer Marco van Wieringen started
+to collect rejected or neglected community contributions in his own branch.
+This branch was later on the base of Bareos and since then was enriched by
+a lot of new features.
+
+This documentation also bases on the \elink{original Bacula documentation}{http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/}, it is technically
+also a fork of the documenation created following the rules of the GNU Free Documentation License.
+
+Both, the Bacula project and the documentation was initiated by Kern Sibbald. We thank Kern and all contributors to Bacula and it's documentation.
+
+
 \section{Who Needs Bareos?}
 
 If you are currently using a program such as tar, dump, or