On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM, James Harper
<james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au> wrote:
>> >
>> > We're planning to upgrade our bacula installation from version 2.4
> to
>> version 5.
>> >
>> > We have many 2.4 clients backing up twice to 2 bacula servers so I'm
>> > curious to know how well/bad it should work with the new server.
>> >
>> > This would let us do the upgrade at a relative calm pace, while
>> > keeping our double backup strategy in place.
>> >
>> > Does anyone has an experience on this situation ?
>>
>> There should be no problem backing up an older client with a newer
> server.
>>
>
> This is probably obvious to everyone, but if you use a newer feature (eg
> you turn accurate on in your template) then expect problems if the
> client doesn't support it. The chances are it won't handle such a thing
> gracefully. (guess how I know this? :)

Hi,

Thanks for all the feedback.
Another question : if I upgrade some clients before the second 2.4
server, how well should they work with this old server ?

Regards,

Mikael Kermorgant


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