Hello Lucas, For someone like you who is so actively working on Bacula, I will always try to make the time to respond :-)
One of the main reasons I don't use Debian is that they cater more toward a ultra stable system rather than being on the latest released software. As a consequence, they often lag quite far behind where I want to be ... The format of the data on the tape has not changed in over 3 years, and I don't expect that it will change in the near future. You can read more details about that in the Security chapter of the manual. Concerning your plan: it is hard for me to answer because I like to be on the latest released software, which for Bacula is currently 1.38.2 (or 1.38.3). Yes, there is a database upgrade needed between 1.36.3 and 1.38.x, but it is rather easy. There is no change in the format of the data on the volumes. Best regards, Kern On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:46, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: > Hi Kern! > > I have a question about bacula usage, I hope you have the time to lead > me a little. > After more than 6 months of testing bacula on my company and one > successfull catalog recover :-), I'm ready to use it in our backup > solutions to some customers, I'm planning to implement it in two steps, > first the bacula server and agents on servers only, and later the bacula > GUI and agents on clients (Windows) too. > > As I'm using Debian stable, I think the best way to go is to install > bacula 1.36.x from Debian and, months later when the GUI is more mature, > upgrade to whatever bacula version that is compatible with it. My only > concern is about data on tape compatibility between versions, I suppose > it's backwards compatible but I want to ask you that anyways to be sure, > do you think is a good plan? I suppose that if there's any catalog > change in between, it would be easy to migrate it, but data on tape it > won't :-) > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
