I would add that since this is for a VM dedicated to running Bacula daemons, nearly all of the distros have a minimal install ISO image. Few, if any, of the bells and whistles installed with a full install are in any way useful to the Bacula daemons.
On 5/18/2017 2:22 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
