As originator of Bacula (and still the highest in the gitstats list of contributors), my personal vote is for Ubuntu. That said,
I would be very happy to run Bacula on any version of Debian -- the Bacula packagers for Debian work closely with the Bacula project -- I would be a lot happier if they would learn to install it in /opt/bacula instead of spreading it all over the filesystem though. Note: Ubuntu also spreads the installation all over the place, so I do my own packaging as recommended in the manual. In light of the wide spread attacks of ransomware, it is even more important to ensure that restoration of Bacula is simple and easy. There is a lot of info on ransomeware on bacula.org.
There is no need you should have to pay for a Bacula Windows client either today or any time in the future. Bacula Systems will ensure that the community Bacula runs on the most popular operating systems (Windows client, MacOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, even Oracle, ...)
Best regards,
Kern
On 7/8/21 9:47 PM, Thing wrote:
Hi,
Which OS you choose depends on which one is best suited to your application(s), I just work on that then try and make the ancillary apps fit. If Bacula does not, use a different backup product.
Centos7 is effectively approaching end of life as Redhat kills it off to make you pay, so I wouldnt suggest that OS or say Stream for this reason. Windows 2012 R2 is also end of life so best to migrate that to 2019? and you might need to pay for a Bacula Windows client? (you did in the past) You need to look at this as as Bacula or indeed any application advances 2012 will be left behind.
Your problem will be what version of Bacula will work across all of these. In my case I ended up with Bacula on Debian as that was the bulk of my OSes and then had to port Bacula client Centos7 to a compatible version, it was a total nightmare I never got a client for Mac OS to work.
regards
Steven
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 17:20, Marc Ferrand <marcferr...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you had a choice, on which system would you install bacula and why ?_______________________________________________These are OSes I'm familiar with in order or preference :lint Mint (20, fork of Ubuntu/Debian), CentOS 7 (free version of RHEL), Windows 10 (Desktop), DragonFly BSD (fork of freeBSD), Windows Server 2012 R2.Any advice or suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance, Marc.
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