On Thursday 26 April 2007 20:57, Darien Hager wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the offer, but unfortunately the answer is no, it is not worth exploring for Bacula use. I've mentioned the reasons when this was suggested some time ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
