Hi Bareos users, as you may have noticed, we are busy to prepare the release of the next major Bareos version 16.2.
If you already knew Bareos, one thing you will notice immediately after installing is that the configuration scheme has changed (https://github.com/bareos/bareos/tree/bareos-16.2 or current master packages at http://download.bareos.org/bareos/experimental/nightly/) Prior version had by default one configuration file per Bareos component (e.g. bareos-dir uses /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.conf, bareos-sd uses /etc/bareos/bareos-sd.conf, ...). We noticed that most larger installation splitted there configuration into several files. Therefore we decided, to split the Bareos configuration into several files by default. This gains us the benefit, that it is easier for Bareos subpackages to extend the configuration and also allow us to provide a simple bconsole command to add resources to the Bareos director configuration, see http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#sec:bcommandConfigure: echo "configure add client name=client2−fd address=192.168.0.2 password=secret" | bconsole The new subdirectory configuration schema uses one file per resource. So the client client2-fd is stored (by default) in /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/client/client2-fd.conf As described in http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#SubdirectoryConfigurationScheme, as long as the old configuration file (e.g. /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.conf) exists, it will be used. The only known problem that can arise, if your existing configuration uses an own wildcard mechanism to include configuration files from /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/ (e.g. @|"sh -c ’echo /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/*.conf'"). In this case, old and new configuration files may collide. To prevent problems, it is recommended to backup the /etc/bareos/ configuration directory before updating. As changing the default configuration scheme has quite some impact when updating systems, we hope to have implement an approach to combines the best between offering benefits and minimized the impact on existing installations. If anybody of you have improvements to contribute, this may be the last chance before the release of bareos-16.2 (which is planed for September, at least a beta release). regards, Jörg -- Jörg Steffens joerg.steff...@bareos.com Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz, M. v. Wieringen -- 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 post to this group, send email to bareos-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
