Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:48 -0700, Steve Ellis wrote:

On 8/5/2009 9:34 AM, Shawn wrote:

Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x

On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as the failure in connecting to the FD from the director, I've tested this before and go the same results regardless of the platform (Mac OS X PPC/Intel, Fedora 6 i386, Fedora 10 i386, Vista x64, Win2k8 x64, Win2k3 x64 / 32-bit) - so, no, it seems I'm stuck either praying I can install a properly updated Bacula director on my amd64 Ubuntu server, or hope that someone moves the packages on Ubuntu/Fedora's repository to something more than 2.4.4

I haven't tried to install it, but Fedora rawhide has bacula 3.0.2--so it seems that F12 is going to get 3.0.2, at least. If the RPMs that Scott (?) builds include one for your release, they work quite well, but even if the binary RPMs aren't available for your release, it isn't that hard to build from the source RPM--I've been doing that for various reasons over the last couple of years--but you may have to lie to rpmbuild about what version you are building for (I tell rpmbuild I'm building for f10, when I'm actually running f11, for example).

Hope this helps,

-se

This is great news! I also heard they are working on an up to date Ubuntu repo version, as well.

If there's one thing we've learned, it is Patience

    I'm not against building from source, I actually was doing that at first - and that's when I stumbled upon the "Hello command rejected" issue since the director was at version 2.4.4 and the source builds were at 3.0.1 (at the time).

    I also spoke to Dan Langille in Canada briefly, and according to legend, the director is the meat and potatoes when concerning Bacula, so you can have a Bacula Director version 3.0.2, and still run ancient FD's against it with no problem, because by design - the director is always backward compatible with FD's of lower versions, for administrative purposes.

    This helps when dealing with overhead, since you only have to upgrade the Director, and you don't have to upgrade a pile of FD's at the same time, and worry about them later.

- Shawn Q

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