On Dec 5, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote:

>> Hello there,
>>
>> I was trying to find file daemon compatibility chart with
>> director/storage and so far did not find anything useful.
>> There are some small backups which are set up for quite a
>> while, there is quite an old version of bacula in use
>> (1.38). Can I try to mix up older director and newer file
>> daemons/storage daemons? I'd like to use winbacula
>> 2.4.3 series fd with 2.0.x series director. I can't
>> upgrade the whole set for now, I need a quick fix for a
>> couple month - there is gonna be a system upgrade after
>> that.
>>
>> Is any chart somewhere like this:
>> 1.3.x series compatible with:
>> 2.0.x - working
>> 2.2.x - not compatible
>> 2.4.x - not compatible
>>
>> 2.0.x series:
>> 1.3.x - working
>> 2.2.x - working
>> 2.4.x - not compatible
>
> I think there is no charts, because compatibility is so important to  
> Bacula. Latest client should be compatible with ANY server.

In general, newer clients can be used with older Directors.

You can use older clients with new Directors so long as you do not use  
the newer features.

In short, try it, see if it works.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/




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