[PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

[Jason Barnett]

Page 3 of their setup guide documents how to install it.  A quick perusal
suggests that you need a licence key to use even the community version.  I
could be wrong as I do not use it and only spent about 30 seconds in
researching it.
https://bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityInstallationGuide.pdf
https://www.bacula.org/bacula-binary-package-download/



On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:56 PM Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

> I am stumped at Ubuntu's package offerings for Bacula, a widely used
> backup utility. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS had version 9.0.6. 20.04 LTS has
> 9.4.4. 22.04 LTS has absolutely no Bacula packages other than (of all
> things) bacula-doc. And 22.10 (not LTS) has version 9.6.7.
>
> The LTS distros are more likely to be used by enterprises and are more
> likely to run backups, but bacula is a no-show in 22.04 LTS.
>
> So if you want to run Bacula on Jammy, you need grab 9.4 from Focal or
> 9.6 from Kinetic and hope one runs. Otherwise, no current LTS for you!
>
> --
> Paul Heinlein
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