On Friday 01 May 2009 04:28:55 James Harper wrote:
> > If you can get it running there is no reason why it shouldn't work
>
> providing
>
> > they are the same major version.  Bacula is designed to be platform
>
> and 32/64
>
> > bit independent.
> >
> > The placement of the conf files is different in the two packages so
>
> that could
>
> > create a number of headaches.
> >
> > The other pain is that since we have no Win32 guru, we do not
>
> officially
>
> > support the Win32 Dir and SD, which means that if you run into
>
> problems, you
>
> > pretty much need to nail down what is going wrong yourself.
>
> Obviously, once
>
> > we know what is wrong or have a patch we'll be happy to fix it.
> >
> > Hopefully at some point in the future either some Open Source
>
> programmer(s)
>
> > will step forward or some companies will ask Bacula Systems to provide
>
> the
>
> > missing support.
>
> Well it does work, but needs a bit of fiddling. Mainly because (I think)
> after installing the 64 bit version it overwrote some start menu items.
> Thinking about it some more, maybe if I installed the fd first then the
> sd+dir it would work.
>
> I wonder how much work would be involved in creating an installer that
> could integrate both options, eg mutually exclusive fd32 and fd64
> options...

For the next major version, we are planning to move the Win32 files to the 
same scheme as the Win64 (i.e. Program Files\Bacula).  That might help a lot, 
but there is still the issue about menu items.  The problem is that they are 
two totally separate installer scripts, and the scripts are terribly 
complicated (not impossible though).

>
> The only problem I'm having is that wxconsole is crashing a lot. 

That is not too good.  I don't think there was much change in bwxconsole, so I 
am not sure what is going on.  In any case, we have deprecated it in favor of 
bat -- however, we still have a good deal of work to do making bat work on 
Win32 in production quality.

> The backups themselves appear to be working just fine. 

Great.


> I'll start testing the exchange plugin soon.

Oh, that would be much appreciated. It is something that a lot of users have 
requested.  Note for the list: as far as I know there is no serious bug in 
the Exchange plugin, but as is always the case for first release, there are 
things to do ...

Best regards,

Kern

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