The current OS on which Bacula is implemented, built and tested is Ubuntu 16.04.  Mint is essentially the same thing with a slightly different user interface. All distros are good and each has its advantages and disadvantages ...

Best regards,

Kern



On 05/16/2017 10:16 PM, Davin Church wrote:

My current home Bacula system is so terribly ancient that I've just
got to get rid of it, but no pre-compiled updates are available for
Windows.  So it looks like my best bet to is to create a VirtualBox
VM (on my Win8.1 host) and load some flavor of *nix on it and install
the appropriate binaries and run the system from there.

However, since I'm barely conversant with *nix OSes in general (and
none specifically), I'd like a recommendation on which (free) OS to
use.  I'd like it to be easy to acquire and set up both the OS and
the latest community Bacula binaries so it doesn't strain my limited
technical skills.  It would also be best if that OS wasn't prone to
having compatibility issues that I see mentioned from time to
time.  I'll be backing up to disk rather than tape, so that should
simplify things a bit.  I presume that MySQL would still be a good DB
choice to use in whichever OS I end up with?

So has anyone got a recommendation (and perhaps some download links) for me?

Davin


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