Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir/SD on Mac or Windows?

2010-03-23 15:24:17
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Dir/SD on Mac or Windows?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Bruce McCarthy <bruce AT zebrafish DOT org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:22:15 -0400
2010/3/23 Bruce McCarthy <bruce AT zebrafish DOT org>:
> I'm a sysadmin who just recently inherited an all Mac & Windows environment.
> We have both servers & clients of both persuasions and no Linux boxes. Our
> current backup strategy is a mish-mosh of cron jobs and external hard
> drives. Hardly a "solution."
>
>
>
> Basically I would like to get the "server-side" apps (Director & Storage
> Daemon) running on either Windows or Mac OS X. There are binaries available
> for Windows up to 3.0.2 but everything I've read leads me to shy away from
> this unsupported implementation.
>
>
>
> On the Mac side, bacula.org recommends Fink. Their latest package is at 2.x.
> DarwinPorts has a package for 3.0.3, and MacPorts has one with version
> 5.0.0.
>
>
>
> So, I am very interested in Bacula but am not sure I should continue to
> pursue it in this Mac-&-Windows-only environment. Any thoughts or advice you
> might have would be helpful and appreciated.
>
>

I would use OS-X for the server part since its unix based. The windows
server is currently not tested as much. Development is done in linux.

John

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