[Borgbackup] borgbackup version between distro

[Zack Coffey]

Short answer, you'll be fine. I've used different versions in the 1.1.x
line and everything has worked fine.


Longer answer; I'm not surprised you had trouble with other software with
such different versions being incompatible. Generally speaking, for the
most part, software development and version numbers follow some common
sense. Meaning, from left to right you have the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH versions.

Some software will either be completely or significantly incompatible
between major versions. Less often, but can happen, you'll find some sort
of incompatibility in minor versions. But for the most part, when talking
about differences in patch versions they are compatible. Note, I've said
'generally' and 'most part' and 'some' because not all software follows a
strict rule.

Now as for best practices, have all your versions match. There are
situations that could prevent you from running matched versions, but
getting them all to be the same or as close as possible is ideal.

You can read more here about the general idea of version number methods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning


On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:18 AM Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi list,
> I'm new to borgbackup and I'm planning to try at home for my little lan.
>
> I have a backup server running centos 8, a nas running debian 10 and my
> workstation where I would run arch.
>
> Currently I have:
>
> - Centos 8 with borg 1.1.11 (my central repository)
> - Debian 10 with borg 1.1.9 (client)
> - Arch with borg 1.1.11 (if I'm not wrong) (client)
>
> Because I have not any knowledge about using multiple version of borg
> with remote repository I could have problem about using multiple version
> of borg with a central repository?
>
> What are the best practices of using multiple borgbackup version together?
>
> I ask this because, in the past I had some problem using bacula with
> different version (5.4, 7.0 and 9.2) and caused me much problem.
>
> Thank you in advance.
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