On Mar 4, 2013 1:46 PM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Michael Stowe
<mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone looked at the windows bacula client to see if it would be
>> possible to make backuppc use it as-is and extract the files for
>> storage like it does with tar?
>>
>
> I looked into it very briefly, and concluded that since the Windows Bacula
> clients weren't open source ( http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=winbin ) that
> essentially BackupPC would have to emulate the Bacula protocol (which is
> documented.) It wouldn't be any worse than FTP, I suppose, but it would be
> exclusively server side development.
>
> The protocol is here:
> http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/developers/developers/Daemon_Protocol.html
>
> I note, however, that the Windows clients aren't free, which kind of
> killed the idea for me.

I'm confused - you mean you can't just download the files from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/Win32_64/5.2.10/?
But anyway the point would be to work with an existing client so you
don't have to reinvent the wheel and then maintain it.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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