> Hello, Hello Kern, > As originator of Bacula (and still the highest in the gitstats list of > contributors), my personal vote is for Ubuntu. We really appreciate that. A life dedication is the human greatest sacrifice. Thank you. > That said, > I would be very happy to run Bacula on any version of Debian -- the Bacula > packagers for Debian work closely with the Bacula project -- I would be a lot > happier if they would learn to install it in /opt/bacula instead of spreading > it all over the filesystem though. This will probably never happen due to the FHS rules pointed by Sven. I even spoke with him about that topic in the past. *Maybe* with a very special agreement with the Debian Community such as the one they made with RedHat (I heard of, couldn't find it) to make a few things standard (such as the systemd services). > In light of the wide spread attacks of ransomware, it is even more important > to > ensure that restoration of Bacula is simple and easy. There is a lot of info > on > ransomeware on bacula.org. I've ever heard or read about a Linux system affected by ransomware, only FUD. Ref.: <https://www.statista.com/statistics/701020/major-operating-systems-targeted-by-ransomware/> Bacula is one of the top worldwide backup systems that runs on Linux. Running the Director and SD as the Linux bacula user is a builtin ransomware protection feature. IMHO bacula.org should advertise that and advise all users to only provide disk volumes write permissions to the bacula user. IMHO 2, the state-of-the-art will be when Bacula automatically set the closed volumes (used, full, readonly, archive, disabled) as immutable (chattr +i). Then, not even the root user could encrypt the disk volumes.
> There is no need you should have to pay for a Bacula Windows client either > today > or any time in the future. Bacula Systems will ensure that the community > Bacula > runs on the most popular operating systems (Windows client, MacOS, FreeBSD, > Solaris, even Oracle, ...) Regards, > Best regards, > Kern > On 7/8/21 9:47 PM, Thing wrote: >> Hi, >> Which OS you choose depends on which one is best suited to your >> application(s), >> I just work on that then try and make the ancillary apps fit. If Bacula does >> not, use a different backup product. >> Centos7 is effectively approaching end of life as Redhat kills it off to make >> you pay, so I wouldnt suggest that OS or say Stream for this reason. Windows >> 2012 R2 is also end of life so best to migrate that to 2019? and you might >> need >> to pay for a Bacula Windows client? (you did in the past) You need to look at >> this as as Bacula or indeed any application advances 2012 will be left >> behind. >> Your problem will be what version of Bacula will work across all of these. >> In my >> case I ended up with Bacula on Debian as that was the bulk of my OSes and >> then >> had to port Bacula client Centos7 to a compatible version, it was a total >> nightmare I never got a client for Mac OS to work. >> regards >> Steven >> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 17:20, Marc Ferrand < [ mailto:marcferr...@gmail.com | >> marcferr...@gmail.com ] > wrote: >>> If you had a choice, on which system would you install bacula and why ? >>> These are OSes I'm familiar with in order or preference : >>> lint Mint (20, fork of Ubuntu/Debian), CentOS 7 (free version of RHEL), >>> Windows >>> 10 (Desktop), DragonFly BSD (fork of freeBSD), Windows Server 2012 R2. >>> Any advice or suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance, Marc. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bacula-users mailing list >>> [ mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net | >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> ] >>> [ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users | >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ] >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list [ mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net | >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net ] [ >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users | >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ] > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) Bacula LATAM CEO mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ]
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