Hi Gentlemen and ladies, Some days ago I've installed the packages of Bacula 9.0.8 with PostgreSQL in a Debian 9 machine initially connected to a 25TB NAS as a substitute for my old backup system with BackupPC (Rsync based). Immediately I started a successful backup routine of about 50 VMs running the most different versions of Debian and Ubuntu but I have some old clients that I couldn't find a 9.x package of bacula-fd, yet. So the doubt is: Can I use these clients on my Bacula server 9.0.8?
I decided to use this version (9.0.8), instead of most recent (9.2.1) because after a search on the Community repository I concluded that this version is what most support Ubuntu and Debian versions, but now I have approximately 20 outdated machines that I can't update their OS and the only bacula-fd version available is 5.x.x (specifically talking: Ubuntu Precise, Ubuntu Wily and Debian Squeeze). I've tried to force a use of these client version but without success. When I ask for "status client" on "bconsole", the message were about the impossibility of a connection. The configuration of new and old clients are the same, there is no firewall or any restriction to client and server talking to each other but unfortunately not work. I've looked for difference between format, protocols etc between 5.x and 9.x but I found nothing about this (probably I did a bad search). Looking here in forum archive I found some suggestion about success with new server and old client but in long time ago (server 3.x and client 2.x or some like that). Nothing more recent. If I can't put the clients in my Bacula 9, the solution I've thinking is install a second backup server running a old Bacula version exclusive to backup these machines. The problem of this solution is have to maintain two backup servers duplicating my efforts to keep all up and running, unecessarily. Can anyone the same scenery to help me? Regards -- Welington Rodrigues Braga -------------- Web: http://www.welrbraga.eti.br Gtalk: welrbraga[*]gmail·com Yahoo / Skype: welrbraga PGP Key: 0x6C7654EB Linux User #253605 "Em tudo somos atribulados, porém não angustiados; perplexos, porém não desanimados; perseguidos, porém não desamparados; abatidos, porém não destruídos;" - 2Co 4:8,9
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