I accidentally sent this directly to Davin, so I am re-posting here to maintain
the thread...
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On Saturday, June 10th, 2023 at 13:45, Davin Church
wrote:
I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but why is the Director not available to run under the pre-compiled Windows
distribution? I ran into this long ago but I thought that it had been re-included more recently. Apparently I was
incorrect. Is there a particular reason for this exclusion?
Davin
Hello Davin,
There is no Director for Windows.
The Director and Storage daemons must be run on Linux/Unix systems - with the caveat that there actually is a Windows Storage
daemon, but it *only* supports file storage, and I am pretty sure it does not support any plugins - ie: S3 and aligned
volumes for example.
There has been talk of building and supporting the Director on Windows, but
that talk was pretty quiet and it was a while ago.
At the time, the talk was actually about putting this on the official (Bacula Enterprise) roadmap, but I have not heard much
about it lately. I guess I can ask the developers, or if they see this they can just respond directly. :)
P.S. From a security and malware/ransomware point of view, I would not recommend running the SD on a Windows system. Having
the SD on a *nix system is one more level of distancing your backup data from being compromised in case of some attack.
Best regards,
Bill
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