On 03/30/17 11:10, Steven Hammond wrote:
> We are currently using Bacula 5.  We've created a new test environment
> to test out version 7.4.X.  It us running in an Ubuntu 16.04LTS VM with
> Postgresql.  I didn't want to use the pre-packaged version (7.0.X) so I
> downloaded the sources and compiled the latest.  My questions is this,
> we have Windows servers we backup as well as Linux.  The windows servers
> have the version 5 client on them.  Will the new test director running
> v7 still be able to back them up (just for test purposes)?  Or do we
> need to purchase new binaries for the windows servers?  Or since I'm
> compiling the sources, do I need to somehow compile a client executable
> to match the latest version?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

You nshould be able to *test* against a V5 *client*.  Server newer than 
client is OK.  However all of your servers (director, storage) need to 
be the same major version and as new as or newer than the client(s).


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