On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:49:33PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 14-10-13 09:38 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:23:31PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>> I have posted a Bacula Status report to the www.bacula.org site.
>>>> It discusses the following items:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Bacula Release Status
>>>>
>>>> 2. Windows Binaries
>>>>
>>> Hmm.. so there are no "community" windows binaries anymore?
>>
>> There have not been any for quite a number of years -- since 5.2.10.
>
> Yep. I assume those 5.2.10 windows (client) binaries should still work with
> the latest Bacula server?
>
>
>>>
>>> Are the windows binaries shipped by Bacula Systems proprietary or
>>> opensource ?
>>
>> They are proprietary but they can be obtained freely by Bacula open
>> source users, and hopefully by everyone for personal use by the end
>> of the year.
>>
>
> OK.
>
>> The principal reason for only "one" version of the Windows binaries
>> was that for several years I was way too overloaded with work and
>> had to reduce somewhere, and since Windows is especially painful,
>> that is where I reduced. I am now much less overloaded, so hope to
>> correct a number of such problems by the end of the year.
>>
>
> I can see that.. any plans to opensource the windows agent,
> at least the core components for basic file backups?
My understanding is the windows agent source code is open source.
The binaries are no longer supplied by the community because the community
stopped building them.
That’s why Bacula Systems stepped up and starting providing binaries.
—
Dan Langille
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