Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:10, DAve wrote:
>> Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> badmin is a GUI project to create a Bacula Administrative Console.
>>>
>>> This console should be capable of the following things:
>>>
>>> - be a Graphical interface
>>> - Include all the features of:
>>> - bconsole
>>> - gnome-console
>>> - wx-console
>>> - bacula-web
>>> - bweb
>>> - brestore
>>> - jbacula
>>> - tray-monitor
>>> - tree selection of files for restore (like wx-console)
>>> - tree selection of files for backup
>>> - graphical creation of FileSets
>>> - resource display/modification
>>> - catalog display/modification
>>> - graphical report generation (like bacula-web, bweb)
>>> - programmable graphical report generation
>>> - scriptable
>>> - create/modify configuration files
>>> - remote client upgrade
>>> - software update/problem/patch notification
>>> - software patch installation
>>> - monitor daemons
>>>
>> Maybe I am out of line here as I am not on the developer list, in fact
>> still a new Bacula user. But I am curious what the method will be for
>> "tree selection of files for backup" and "graphical creation of FileSets"?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that we have had much discussion here about wanting
>> a graphical application for running on the fd side so a user with access
>> could manage the backup for that fd machine only. Such as our
>> development department, right now they send changes to the FileSet to
>> me, with a Bacula GUI they might be able to manage their own backups.
>>
>> The one holdup was that Bacula maintains it's FileSet information in the
>> bacula-dir.conf on the dir.
>
> This will continue to be the case at least in the foreseeable future.
>
>> How will the GUI manage this information?
>
>> I would not want someone on development-fd to cause a config reload on
>> director-dir at will.
>
> This is up to you to manage. For the foreseeable future Bacula will remain a
> central control model.
>
>> Would it be possible to store FileSet information in the DB? Possibly
>> the bacula-dir could read the next client job from the bacula-dir.conf,
>> and fetch the FileSet from SQL.
>>
>> Job {
>> Name = newjob
>> JobDefs = newjob
>> SQLFileSet = newjob
>> Write Bootstrap = "/data/backups/newjob.bsr"
>> }
>>
>>
>> Is this a feature request?
>
> You can make the feature request, but at the moment, I'm not planning to add
> any more config data to the DB. There are already enough problems in that
> regard concerning disaster recovery without making it worse.
>
> There are other solutions to the problem that we may be able to implement,
> but
> we first need to get the project off the ground. There will be *plenty* of
> time to be concerned about functionality once the basic framework is working
> so please go ahead and discuss these issues, and I will take note, but not
> respond to all of them at the current time other than to say that in general,
> I would like this adminstratrative console to have as much functionality as
> possible, while at the same time, I reserve the perogative to review the
> exact details of the implementation to keep it within the current (though
> evolving) Bacula philosophy.
>
Understood, thanks for the reply.
DAve
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