For testing, I just wanted to make sure the existing binaries would work, but I have already put in a request to purchase the newer versions. :-)
Steven Hammond On 3/31/2017 7:01 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Steven, > > You can try the 5.x binaries and they will probably work, but there > have been *many* improvements since then. The community distribution > no longer contains the Windows source code, so the only way to build > it yourself is to get a very old one 5.2.13 (I think) and try to build > it. The instructions are in the README, but it is not simple. > > On the other hand, you can purchase at a very minimum the Bacula > Enterprise Windows binaries built for the community version -- the > latest version is 7.4.4. The binaries are on the bacula.org website, > but only for personal use, all non-personal use (any corporation, > government, school, ... can purchase the binaries from: > > https://www.baculasystems.com/windows-binaries-for-bacula-community-users > > > Best regards, > > Kern > > > On 03/30/2017 05:10 PM, Steven Hammond wrote: >> We are currently using Bacula 5. We've created a new test environment >> to test out version 7.4.X. It us running in an Ubuntu 16.04LTS VM with >> Postgresql. I didn't want to use the pre-packaged version (7.0.X) so I >> downloaded the sources and compiled the latest. My questions is this, >> we have Windows servers we backup as well as Linux. The windows servers >> have the version 5 client on them. Will the new test director running >> v7 still be able to back them up (just for test purposes)? Or do we >> need to purchase new binaries for the windows servers? Or since I'm >> compiling the sources, do I need to somehow compile a client executable >> to match the latest version? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Steven Hammond >> Technical Chemical Company >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
