The current OS on which Bacula is implemented, built and tested is Ubuntu 16.04. Mint is essentially the same thing with a slightly different user interface. All distros are good and each has its advantages and disadvantages ...
Best regards, Kern On 05/16/2017 10:16 PM, Davin Church wrote: > My current home Bacula system is so terribly ancient that I've just > got to get rid of it, but no pre-compiled updates are available for > Windows. So it looks like my best bet to is to create a VirtualBox > VM (on my Win8.1 host) and load some flavor of *nix on it and install > the appropriate binaries and run the system from there. > > However, since I'm barely conversant with *nix OSes in general (and > none specifically), I'd like a recommendation on which (free) OS to > use. I'd like it to be easy to acquire and set up both the OS and > the latest community Bacula binaries so it doesn't strain my limited > technical skills. It would also be best if that OS wasn't prone to > having compatibility issues that I see mentioned from time to > time. I'll be backing up to disk rather than tape, so that should > simplify things a bit. I presume that MySQL would still be a good DB > choice to use in whichever OS I end up with? > > So has anyone got a recommendation (and perhaps some download links) for me? > > Davin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
