On 2015-12-24 07:34 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi Wanderlei and Greg. > > On 23/12/15 15:34, Greg Woods wrote: > >>> am thinking of using Debian Jessie which includes Bacula 5.2.6 in its >>> repository for director and storage daemon. But I remember a few cases >>> where I have experienced incompatibilities if the client versions are >>> far from the server version. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. >> The requirement is FD <= (SD == DIR). The storage daemon and director >> must be the same version, and must be newer than or the same as any >> file daemons of any of the clients. I do use a 7.0.5 director and >> storage daemon (compiled from source on Debian Jessie in the SD case) >> with some clients that have 5.2.6 file daemons and that works just fine. > Thanks for your answers and for the considerations mentioned about the > versions. > > Greg, you mention having compiled the SD on Jessie, but I guess you've > also compiled the Director, right? Since both must have the same > version. Though I suppose that the Director may also be on another host > that includes Bacula 7.0.5 in its repositories. > > About using Jessie, is it worth compile the Director and SD? That is, > improvements regarding the versions provided by Jessie (5.2.6) make a > substantial difference? What improvements have you noticed? > > My idea is to use Jessie for Director and storage daemon. Among the > client hosts I've Squeeze LTS, CentOS 5.10, Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows > server (2008R2 SP1 server edition and 2003R2 SP2 standard edition). > > From what I was looking for Squeeze, the latest version is on Backports > (5.2.6) because the version on the squeeze-lts repository is even older > (5.0.2). I think the Ubuntu version of Bacula is the same as on Debian > Squeeze. Moreover, I think CentOS does not include Bacula in their > repositories (at least in the official repositories, according I was > watching). So maybe in this case the compilation is the only alternative. > > Have you found any problem using some version of File Daemon for Windows > (especially in versions of Windows such as those mentioned above)? > > Thanks again for your replies. > > Best regards, > Daniel >
I too am running a 7.0.5 director and storage daemon with mostly 5.2.6 clients. Compiling the 7.x binaries is simple enough on a Debian/Ubuntu box to make it well worth it. I haven't seen any particular reason to worry about the file daemon (clients) though, they appear to work fine with the 5.x binaries as shipped. However on the director/storage side there's been more than a few bugs squashed between 5.2 and 7.0.5! Bryn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
