On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:04, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello. > I will expand the use of bacula to a greater number of computers to backup. > Im using the 1.38.x version. > Should I update now to 1.39.x?
No > What about backward compatibility? > - Clients (fd) > - Volumes > - Catalogs > - ... > > If this is on documentation/bacula page, point me out where. Have you read the full ReleaseNotes? I think it is all documented -- certainly Clients (I say they are backward compatible but do not guarantee it) and certainly for catalogs where I say you must upgrade (so they in a sense are not compatible -- you need to upgrade). I'm not sure what the question is with Volumes, they have always from day 1 been upward compatible -- this is somewhere in the manual. Note, one exception is old DVD Volumes are not compatible with the new format, but Bacula DVD writing has always been beta (maybe even alpha), still is and will probably remain so even after the 1.40.0 release. This is a BETA release, so please don't expect it to be bug free or the documentation to be complete. Beta means that there are lots of new features (i.e. new code and new bugs), sometimes many are untested. However, the code passes my regression scripts (on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris) which test only a part of the functionality, and there are *certainly* new bugs, possibly some show stoppers, as we recently saw with multiple drive autochangers ... As with all software I know of, if you upgrade, it is very unlikely you can go back, unless you restore everything you previously had including your old DB. I hope that answers your questions. > Thanks > > -- > > > > > > > Jaime Ventura > [Infra-estruturas e Comunicações] > > Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 > 4200 - 072 Porto > Telef: +351 22 834 05 00 (04) - ext. 1641 > Fax: +351 22 832 11 59 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > url: www.isep.ipp.pt <http://www.isep.ipp.pt> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
