Folks,
Can I just remind people that it is quite possible -- even fairly simple
-- to build bareos from source on the distro you have to hand. I did so
not so long ago for my Raspberry Pi (armv7) and it was painless, took
about 20 mins, and works just fine. In my case, install & run debbuild
was the thing to do. I guess CentOS will use a different method, but
it's all there.
If your answer is 'but it's not guaranteed to work' ... well, the
community versions were never *guaranteed* to work and came without
*any* formal level of support. In other words, your own build is just as
likely to work as the build the Bareos team made.
On the other hand, even if Bareos itself is bug-free the libraries (eg
for tls) that old versions use have many well known critical CVEs and so
I would suggest that using old versions of Bareos is a significant
security risk -- and remember that not all malware needs to traverse a
firewall.
Regards,
Ruth
On 13/10/2023 07:53, agenttank wrote:
Hi!
We are using Bareos 18.2 for a few older/legacy physical hosts and
VMs. Some clients use Bareos 16/17, some clients use CentOS 5 or even
4. We did not keep track of any news regarding paywalling the
repositories. We honestly did not expect this to happen.
It will take us a while to upgrade the clients (or move the services
that run there to more modern platforms/OSs), so we still have to make
sure, that backups (and restores!) work.
Turns out we could potentially also run into problems, when trying to
restore from the server, because we can’t download those old Bareos
versions!
I tried upgrading the Bareos server (18.2) to the most recent version
22, but it turns out, since version 21 or so only PostgreSQL is
supported as catalog driver, so we’d need version 20 or so to convert
the database (which I don’t get either).
We are thinking about switching to the paid version of Bareos, but
we’d have to be very sure, that this all works out.
Does Bareos 22 (client) work with CentOS 4 or 5?
Can Bareos 16/17 connect to Bareos 22 server?
I’d be very happy to read suggestions!
Thank you!
Best regards
Stefan Pinter
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