Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 1) i'm not still sure is a compatibility trouble. I reply to myself, because still i don't think is a 'compatibility' trouble, and, as st.paul 'lightned' in the road to damasco, i've understood. Storage daemons are effectively some virtualization hosts (Proxmox), and have two addresses, one

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-23 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... > I'm still running old FDs - 3.0.3 on some AIX boxes being the oldest - > talking to a 9.4.2 DIR/SD on Solaris 11.3, and all is good. Ah! Also 3.X?! Cool... i think i was using old software... ;-) > How much RAM is on your server, and how ar

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-23 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > Is it *feasible* to install enough of a local development environment on > these legacy servers to locally compile a 7.x client for them? Sure, i can try to ''backport'' bacula debian packages and deploy on these servers but... first... how c

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 23/06/2022 02:39, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I'm setting up a Bacula installation for a set of servers, using debian buster package (9.4.2-2+deb10u1) for director and storage daemons. All works as expected until we use file daemon versions 7+, but some very old servers that have bacula 5.0 or 5.2

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 6/22/22 16:51, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... The first and most obvious question here is: Is there some sound technical reason why you have not updated the file daemons on those servers to something at least moderately recent? Never hear of 'leg

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > The first and most obvious question here is: Is there some sound > technical reason why you have not updated the file daemons on those > servers to something at least moderately recent? Never hear of 'legacy systems'?! ;-) These are a bunc

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 6/22/22 12:39, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I'm setting up a Bacula installation for a set of servers, using debian buster package (9.4.2-2+deb10u1) for director and storage daemons. All works as expected until we use file daemon versions 7+, but some very old servers that have bacula 5.0 or 5.2 doe

[Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm setting up a Bacula installation for a set of servers, using debian buster package (9.4.2-2+deb10u1) for director and storage daemons. All works as expected until we use file daemon versions 7+, but some very old servers that have bacula 5.0 or 5.2 does not work. Communication works as exp