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Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-10 04:13:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?
From: Marcello Romani <mromani AT ottotecnica DOT com>
To: Randy Katz <rkatz AT simplicityhosting DOT com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:11:30 +0100
Il 10/02/2011 09:00, Randy Katz ha scritto:
> On 2/9/2011 11:40 PM, Marcello Romani wrote:
>> Il 10/02/2011 08:14, Ralf Gross ha scritto:
>>> Jeff Shanholtz schrieb:
>>>> ...
>>>> Finally, I assume that if I stay with 3.0.1 on the server, I can
>>>> upgrade
>>>> clients to 5.0.3, correct? I'm crossing my fingers that the client
>>>> "status"
>>>> window will be a little more informative than just a big blank
>>>> window like
>>>> it is in 3.0.1. :)
>>> don't know about the other things, but newer clients can't connect to
>>> an older director. The other way is ok, new director and older
>>> clients.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
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>> I have a 5.0.3 director and a mixture of 2.4.x and 5.0.x storage
>> daemons, and all works fine.
>> Being on debian, I had to enable lenny-backports to install bacula 5.0.x
>> on the server, otherwise the 2.4.x version provided by the stable branch
>> of debian wouldn't work with the 5.0.x client (i.e. file daemon)
>> provided by ubuntu 10.04.
> Oh, I assumed all the debian based users were compiling from source. I

I prefer to stay with distro packages unless some important features 
exist in newer versions.
Even then, I assume backports are better integrated with the OS than any 
self-compiled package.

> am sure anyone new to bacula would want
> to run the latest version. At any rate easy enough to compile from
> source, right? Not sure about gui and library support

Easy or not, compiling the package means IMHO adding unnecessary 
complexity to the task of learning bacula, which is challenging enough 
in and of itself.

> though, I am sure someone can comment further, also ubuntu is
> essentially debian, right?

Yes, but much less conservative (they pull from unstable IIRC). That's 
why you get bacula 2.4.x with debian stable and 5.0.x with Ubuntu.

>
> Regards,
> Randy

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Marcello Romani

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Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen.
Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle.
Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance.
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