For testing, I just wanted to make sure the existing binaries would 
work, but I have already put in a request to purchase the newer 
versions.  :-)

Steven Hammond


On 3/31/2017 7:01 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> You can try the 5.x binaries and they will probably work, but there 
> have been *many* improvements since then.  The community distribution 
> no longer contains the Windows source code, so the only way to build 
> it yourself is to get a very old one 5.2.13 (I think) and try to build 
> it. The instructions are in the README, but it is not simple.
>
> On the other hand, you can purchase at a very minimum the Bacula 
> Enterprise Windows binaries built for the community version -- the 
> latest version is 7.4.4.  The binaries are on the bacula.org website, 
> but only for personal use, all non-personal use (any corporation, 
> government, school, ... can purchase the binaries from:
>
> https://www.baculasystems.com/windows-binaries-for-bacula-community-users
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
>
> On 03/30/2017 05:10 PM, Steven Hammond wrote:
>> We are currently using Bacula 5.  We've created a new test environment
>> to test out version 7.4.X.  It us running in an Ubuntu 16.04LTS VM with
>> Postgresql.  I didn't want to use the pre-packaged version (7.0.X) so I
>> downloaded the sources and compiled the latest.  My questions is this,
>> we have Windows servers we backup as well as Linux.  The windows servers
>> have the version 5 client on them.  Will the new test director running
>> v7 still be able to back them up (just for test purposes)?  Or do we
>> need to purchase new binaries for the windows servers?  Or since I'm
>> compiling the sources, do I need to somehow compile a client executable
>> to match the latest version?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Steven Hammond
>> Technical Chemical Company
>>
>>
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