Bacula 9.x is also the latest version available through the Debian repo.
There doesn't seem to be a move to upgrade that to 11 or 13. That's why I
built v11 from source. Like you I run the dir/sd/fd on the same machine so
compiled the complete package. I never had to build an fd only till now.
-Ch
I don't know for sure because I have only deployed a client with SD / Dir
and FD all on the same machine, but I would imagine that an FD client only
machine wouldn't need a database. I'm pretty confident that if one was
needed, it would be installed as a dependency of the bacula client package.
My
I hadn't spotted that there is a link on this page though it does say an
email will be sent. That doesn't seem to be the case. I followed that
through to the directory of debs and found the bullseye/11 clients. As you
say, that should be OK for Debian 12.
Am I correct in thinking that it isn't nec
Oh no, I gave you wrong information. I'm sorry.
I don't think they email you. After you submit your name and email address,
the followup page that loads has the repo link in the middle of the page It
says " You may now access the bacula binaries located here (please bookmark
this link)." where "he
I waited a while but never got the registration email. Tried again and
waited some more so gave up. The only way seems to be to download from
sourceforge and compile from source. There is a compile flag for client
only --enable_client_only, see the manual at;
https://www.bacula.org/11.0.x-manuals
