Re: Automating Windows fd Client Installation

Mandi! Rob Gerber
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> I don't know what the bacula community team has used for an installer, but
> I suspect that it doesn't have unattended installation instructions.

Looking at the source seems to me still use NSIS:

	https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/tree/Branch-15.0/bacula/src/win32/win64_installer?ref_type=heads


> For an automated installation, I believe the largest challenge lies in
> getting the director password into the bacula-fd.conf file, and in

Modern and decent deploy system have some sort of 'protected vault' for
config file/options with password.


> think that one possible way forward for an unattended installation could be
> to script a manual installation process.

I confirm. Installation is:
 - install binary
 - setup service
 - install config file
 - start service

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