Newest client to support windows 2000

[Brock Palen]

I have a need to backup windows 2000 system (used to control a dos based printing system)

I tried down to version 12 (olest on the site) and got errors.

I have it talking with bacula 5.2 but those are similar age so I’m curious if there is a more recent or native ‘bareos’ version.

Worse case the important programs that if they didnt’ depend on an ISA card could be moved DosBox.

Thanks


Brock Palen
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[Andreas Rogge]

Hi Brock,

Am 16.09.22 um 21:43 schrieb Brock Palen:

> I have a need to backup windows 2000 system (used to control a dos based printing system)

You should have a serious conversation with your customer. If anything
on that machine breaks, you'll be completely out of luck.
Do you have any tested procedure to reinstall the Windows 2000 with
required service-packs, hotfixes and drivers? Any spare parts for that
system? If it is critical enough for a backup, it is probably critical
enough to be able to fix it if it breaks.

Just my 0.02 $ tough...

> I tried down to version 12 (olest on the site) and got errors.

Bareos 12 is from sometime in 2012. Windows 2000 extended support ended
in July 2010, so there's a two year gap between the EoL for Windows 2000
and the advent of Bareos itself.
Your best chance is probably the XP-Build of 14.2. If anything works on
Windows 2000, then it is this. Also, it should still speak with a recent
Bareos Director - completely unencrypted though.

http://download.bareos.org/bareos/release/14.2/windows/XP_2003/
https://download.bareos.com/bareos/release/14.2/windows/XP_2003/

Using the normal Windows FD (i.e. the "postvista" build) will not work
correctly on systems prior to Windows Vista, as there were some major
changes in the system's backup APIs.

Hope that helps!

Best Regards,
Andreas
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[Brock Palen]

Thanks appreciate it and had all the same thoughts. Though this is my parents :-)
The Windows2000 is an upgrade from Dos with custom hardware running on ISA slots.

They will retire before this tech is retired.

So far using the last public bacula client appears to work still with Bareos 21 director.

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

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