James Cort wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm looking at rebuilding the server that (amongst other things) is my 
> SD/Director using an amd64 version of Linux (it's currently running an 
> x86 version).
> 
> Will the minor architecture change affect my ability to read tapes 
> created prior to rebuilding the server?  I know the goal is to maintain 
> compatability of the on-tape format between versions, but I don't know 
> if that includes endian-ness and C data type independence.

According to the bacula developer's manual at

http://bacula.org/en/developers/Storage_Media_Output_Format.html#SECTION000115000000000000000

"All Block Headers, Record Headers, and Label Records are written using
Bacula's serialization routines. These routines guarantee that the data is
written to the output volume in a machine independent format."

So you should be pretty safe.  Odds are, if you do find any problems due to
the 32 to 64 change, it's something that should be filed as a bug report.

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