Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for OSX 10.9

2014-09-08 09:33:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for OSX 10.9
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:27:34 +0100
Unfortunately the cake is rotten now :-)  PackageMaker is no longer supported
by Apple so the script doesn't work on OSX 10.9.

Please encourage Bacula Systems to contribute a fix to this script back to the
community version and build its binaries from that, rather than using a secret
cake recipe.

__Martin


>>>>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:34:00 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> 
> The Mac OS X client for Bacula should be a standard Mac OS X package --
> a xxx.dmg file.
> Anything that is a tar or other form is not very professional.  I am not
> sure what homebrew supplies, but if they have done it right it is a .dmg.
> 
> The instructions for building it yourself on a Mac are in the Bacula
> source distribution in:
> 
>   <bacula>/platforms/osx/README
> 
> Once you have the developer tools installed, it is a "piece of cake".
> 
> Best regards,
> Kern
> 
> On 09/07/2014 04:06 PM, Paul Mather wrote:
> > 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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