You mentioned the SD source code being proprietary, but are you talking about the Enterprise version here or the Community version? (I'm assuming that's just for the Enterprise version.)
It occurs to me that since I now have VMs available (which I didn't until recently), I might actually run a *nix version of Bacula in a VM and talk to Windows FDs, but it would still take me a great deal of time that I don't have to learn and set up the proper environment for running it (unless someone has that pre-built). So at present I guess I'm still looking for a time-inexpensive way to compile the Community Windows binaries.
Thanks for all your input!
Davin
At 07:53 PM 10/14/2015, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
Well you are indeed on a pretty old Bacula. I am glad that it has worked for you.
Concerning Windows FDs. The last community one available is for version 5.2.10, but it still works (or should) with the latest Bacula versions including 7.2.0.
The Bacula Enterprise Windows binaries are available to the community at a very reasonable price (just enough to cover Bacula Systems costs) -- I think the last version was 7.0.5, but it should also work on 7.2.0. If I am not mistaken, the Enterprise version 7.0.5 also has the SD (I cannot 100% guarantee it). One note here is that the SD works only with disk Volumes (it does not support tape drives). At the current time, there is no Windows Director that is available.
Finally, if all goes well, before the end of the year, I will have a new Windows Enterprise 7.2.x FD version to release as well as a regular Community 7.2.x (no charge) version. The big obstacle at the moment is getting a download plugin installed into the Bacula.org wordpress program. This is necessary because although the binaries are available the Bacula Window SD source code is proprietary, so the Windows binaries cannot be released on Source Forge.
This does not solve your problem but hopefully it helps you understand what is available.
Best regards,
Kern
On 10/14/2015 04:55 PM, Davin Church wrote:
Greetings, list!
I've been using Bacula 3.0.3a for some years now on my home Windows-only network, but I would like to upgrade to a more recent version of the community version. I understand that more-recent pre-compiled Windows binaries (except for the FD) are no longer available for the community product, and Bacula Enterprise is too expensive for my needs. I do know that Bacula Systems also offers a Windows binary build for the FD, but I need to be able to run the SD & Dir on Windows as well.
Therefore, I think I am relegated to compiling my own binaries from the source. However, I don't have the time (or probably the knowledge/skill either) to create a full build environment from scratch here on my system. But since I can run virtual machines here, I was wondering if anyone has managed to produce a standalone VM system that is configured to compile Windows binaries from the community source? If I could just load up a working VM system image (even a non-Windows one) and supply it the current source code, I think that would be enough to allow me to compile the system that I need myself.
Does anyone know of such a standalone VM that is available for folks like me to use? Or does anyone have any better ideas for me to try? I tried searching the list archives, but I could only narrow it down to 21K+ messages for manual review, so I hope you'll forgive me if this has been asked and answered before.
Davin
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