Hi Ruth, building the Packages for CentOS is easy, too. Change some things in the spec File and do a rpmbuild.
greets Steffen ________________________________ Von: bareos-users@googlegroups.com <bareos-users@googlegroups.com> im Auftrag von Ruth Ivimey-Cook <r...@ivimey.org> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Oktober 2023 15:01 An: bareos-users <bareos-users@googlegroups.com> Betreff: Re: [bareos-users] Upgrading Bareos 18.2 but repos are blocked Folks, Can I just remind people that it is quite possible -- even fairly simple -- to build bareos from source on the distro you have to hand. I did so not so long ago for my Raspberry Pi (armv7) and it was painless, took about 20 mins, and works just fine. In my case, install & run debbuild was the thing to do. I guess CentOS will use a different method, but it's all there. If your answer is 'but it's not guaranteed to work' ... well, the community versions were never *guaranteed* to work and came without *any* formal level of support. In other words, your own build is just as likely to work as the build the Bareos team made. On the other hand, even if Bareos itself is bug-free the libraries (eg for tls) that old versions use have many well known critical CVEs and so I would suggest that using old versions of Bareos is a significant security risk -- and remember that not all malware needs to traverse a firewall. Regards, Ruth On 13/10/2023 07:53, agenttank wrote: Hi! We are using Bareos 18.2 for a few older/legacy physical hosts and VMs. Some clients use Bareos 16/17, some clients use CentOS 5 or even 4. We did not keep track of any news regarding paywalling the repositories. We honestly did not expect this to happen. It will take us a while to upgrade the clients (or move the services that run there to more modern platforms/OSs), so we still have to make sure, that backups (and restores!) work. Turns out we could potentially also run into problems, when trying to restore from the server, because we can’t download those old Bareos versions! I tried upgrading the Bareos server (18.2) to the most recent version 22, but it turns out, since version 21 or so only PostgreSQL is supported as catalog driver, so we’d need version 20 or so to convert the database (which I don’t get either). We are thinking about switching to the paid version of Bareos, but we’d have to be very sure, that this all works out. Does Bareos 22 (client) work with CentOS 4 or 5? Can Bareos 16/17 connect to Bareos 22 server? I’d be very happy to read suggestions! Thank you! Best regards Stefan Pinter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/beb99931-0563-445a-ae53-5bdf8feddc8cn%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/beb99931-0563-445a-ae53-5bdf8feddc8cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Software Manager & Engineer Tel: 01223 414180 Blog: http://www.ivimey.org/blog LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruthivimeycook/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/e21a8a1e-d659-4b6f-b197-ad6525fdf65b%40ivimey.org<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/e21a8a1e-d659-4b6f-b197-ad6525fdf65b%40ivimey.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/BEZP281MB1959BDB0F74D0F88E736F858C6D7A%40BEZP281MB1959.DEUP281.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
