On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> Has anyone built a bacula-fd for suse-9 at all? >> >> Yes. No rpms here, though. >> >> I'm quite sure someone else will have an rpm soon for the FD at least. > > Hopefully the above is true, but if I recall correctly, the Bacula project > (i.e. Scott) is no longer supporting SuSE 9.
I've previously discussed with Scott about making bacula-fd-static binaries available (where possible) for use on obsolete systems. While I realise it's not always possible to make a full -static set, 99% of the time the filedaemon is the only thing needed - in order to keep backing up older systems until they're replaced. Right now I can imagine several people asking why I don't just update and the answer is simple - we are a space lab, supporting projects which may run for a decade or more and a lot of the time the software is binary-only and keyed to a particular machine and/or OS(*) - which means we are locked into using that machine or OS until the probe in question (somewhere around the solar system) finally dies. (*) Sometimes we have sources and find that the person who wrote the code is long gone, or the code is very tightly coded to the OS - but more often it's just so incredibly badly written that it's totally non-portable. Rocket Scientists are some of the lousiest programmers on the planet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
