On 08/02/2016 06:12 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 11:23:31 -0400
> "John Stoffel" <john AT stoffel DOT org> wrote:
>
>> Debian is a great release, but boy are they stuck in the past for some
>> projects.  It's time to upgrade my bacula on mysql to the latest
>> release.  Any suggestions on the easiest way to do this?
>>
>> Ideally, I'd prefer to just install packages from a repository and
>> have it do all the upgrade work for me.  I've got a very simple setup
>> where it's just two clients, one Linux, one Windows 10, and a set of
>> disks volumes I write my bacula volumes to.
>>
>> I see that Debian Testing is starting to have the latest packages, but
>> unfortunately the jessie-backports isn't supporting anything newer.
>> Bummers.
>>
>> I guess I could just install sid/testing packages.
> By the way, why do you _need_ to upgrade Bacula?
Well, it is rare that anyone _need_s to upgrade Bacula, and I
think most messages said that the particular person in question
*should* upgrade.

If a user is technical and happy with the Bacula installation, there is
no need to upgrade, but if you:
- Need support
- Want important (in some cases critical) security fixes
- Want new features
- Want performance improvements
- You run into a blocking bug (that is already fixed or
   will be fixed in a current version).
...

Then it may make sense to upgrade.

Best regards,
Kern

> I'm backing a dozen of servers some of which stuck to Bacula 5.0.2 (and
> even older), with the master server (which hosts the director and SD)
> still running Wheezy.  I have no issues with this setup.  The servers
> being backed up are Windows and Debian machines.
>
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