On Sep 7, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com> wrote:

> On 09/07/2014 07:33 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>> I'm interested in perhaps deploying this in my k-8 school, but I have not 
>> found a good tutorial of how to install it. Or if it even works right on Mac.
>> 
>> Anyone have some insights on this? My idea would be to back about 30 macs to 
>> an Ubuntu server.
> 
> This would be a good way to setup Bacula.  The Director, SD and catalog
> work well on a Ubuntu server -- I recommend Trusty (14.04).  For the
> Mac's someone probably has made the binaries and distributes them on the
> Internet.  Otherwise if you load all the appropriate build tools on the
> Mac, you can easily build the FD.   Later this year, Bacula Systems will
> provide free binaries for MacOSX which should also help.

I've not used Bacula on a Mac, but I do notice that Homebrew 
(http://brew.sh) has a formula for bacula-fd, which could be used to 
install the client.  Right now, it's only for the 5.x version (5.2.13), 
though.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Paul.


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