On 1/17/2011 10:52 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> Bacula consists of 3 different parts. A client (for the servers/pc's you
>> want to backup), a storage daemon (to control the storage device) and a
>> director (the controlling daemon).
>>
>> Only the client is officially supported and released for windows. The
>> director and storage daemon are not, so it'll be difficult to get those to
>> run without a linux/solaris/... server. (as shown here) It has been done by
>> some people, but it's not an easy and usually buggy thing to do.
>>
>
> I agree. Its much better / easier to run the director, database and
> storage on a linux, bsd or Solaris machine. And this is the only
> supported configuration.

One exception to that: the database server could run on anything.  It's 
a client-server relationship.  I see no technical issue with running the 
database (i.e. Catalog) on a remote system, which could be anything....

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

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