I don’t have notes but I got a very old bacula client on windows 2000 working 
with current bareos director and storage.

The trick was in the encryption settings to allow the old clients without 
requiring the PSK encryption to talk to the dir and sd.

Newer clients still connect with encryption and it is less secure, because you 
might not notice when they don’t and your sending your data in the clear.  You 
are also depending on something that you really should not.  In my case it was 
doable because I have VPN between the sites.

You might also look as your on mostly linux clients, just to build baroes from 
source, it’s not that difficult, to try to get a newer client working on the 
old platforms.  YMMV though. 

Another option is to export the volumes with data you want to backup to another 
host that’s newer and backup over NFS or something.  Again a bad idea.  This 
only really works if you only backup user data and not the ‘host’.

You might notice a trend in my replies, do as I say not as I do, update your 
hosts. 


Brock Palen
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www.mlds-networks.com
Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting



> On Jan 23, 2025, at 10:27 PM, Rodrigo Yesi <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello, how are you? I was able to get the latest version of Bareos working on 
> 24, since I had 18. but I run into the problem that the clients of my servers 
> are versions 18 of benchmarks. I have servers with OS Centos 7, Ubuntu 14, 
> Debian 8, critical ones that I need to backup. Is there any possibility of 
> installing a version compatible with Director v24 with v18 clients? Or is 
> there a way to make them interact? I tried to install the latest version of 
> the bareos client on my Centos 7, Debian 8, Ubuntu 14 servers, and since they 
> were old I couldn't do it
> 
> Thank you very much in advance
> Greetings 
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