Cross-posting this particular reply to the developers list as well... On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > This has been rejected before, and the reason being that you really > don't want to have to have a database in order to read your tapes. If > you have an emergency that you need to recover from, the ability to > put > the config files in a directory and take off running is rather > important.
Yeah, it is nice to cut down on dependencies for "omg fixit fixit" restore cases. Hmm. This may be a bit of a departure from the title, but I guess some desirable traits for the config that I'm hearing: * Relational integrity: Jobs refer to defined clients, pools to defined storage resources, etc. etc. * Third party tool access: For admins to simplify their lives and manage their set-ups, no continous battle with regular expressions. * Platform independence: Shouldn't need a database in order to restore files Brainstorming idea: XML with Schema validation? * The config would be a plain file and portable. * It would be relatively easy for admins to write tools to read and write from the config. * With a library that supports validation, XML schemas can do a lot of the hard work of checking data values and structure. * Validation by XML schema can check referential integrity and uniqueness constraints. * Rules and situations for quoting and escaping slashes and spaces etc. are fairly well defined. * But would be more verbose. Now, I'm not in the "XML for everything" camp by any means, but in this particular situation it may be worth looking into. Disclosure: I'm reading through a book on XML schemas, so I have a minor bias. If this seems "worth exploring" to Bacula devs, I'd be happy to help. --Darien A. Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
