RFC: Backup upgrade

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:28 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Currently we are using Bacula 2.4.4 for our backups. With the upcoming
> upgrades to RHEL-6 the main backup software will be bacula-5.0.0. I
> have 'gleaned' that the upgrade from 2.x to 5.x is not simple which
> means we are going to need to do a project on how this will be done.
> 
> I am looking for people who have done project management in the past
> to help out on this.. mainly it would be to help step through people
> who may not have large scale project experience on what things usually
> need to be done: scoping, staffing, dropback points, documentation,
> etc.
> 


Are there forward/backward compat issues with clients?

ie if we're still on bacula 2.X on the master can be backup a bacula 5.X
client?

-sv