Thanks, Rob, for the pointer. I'll give installing Bacularis a shot.

Best,

<Myles>

On 2023-12-05 5:40 p.m., Rob Gerber wrote:

> Certainly!
>
> You have several options for bacula web gui.
> There is Bacula-web, which I haven't used so cannot speak to it. I believe 
> Bacula-web is primarily a reporting tool, and not a control tool. I haven't 
> examined it closely, so I will have to do so later. Looks interesting. The 
> developer is on this mailing list!
> https://www.bacula-web.org/
>
> There is Baculum, which is provided and maintained by the bacula project. 
> Find it in the bacula project repo or your OS repo if that's what you used to 
> install bacula (I hope you used the bacula project repo).
>
> Finally, there is Bacularis, a friendly fork of Baculum. Bacularis makes some 
> UI changes, and pushes some bugfixes up to Baculum as well. I think the goal 
> of the Bacularis dev is to make baculum more approachable.
> I use bacularis, though I have used baculum as well in the past. They are 
> superficially similar in some ways.
> Bacularis is available in a docker container, though the docker container 
> version of the app comes with its own director, sd, and fd. You will need to 
> modify the container to point to your own bacula installation.
> I installed bacularis natively (not via container) in rockylinux 9. It wasn't 
> terribly difficult, as things go. Slightly more involved than merely issuing 
> a package manager install command and flying along (this is also true of 
> baculum). Generally after installation of the program, you must ensure it has 
> appropriate sudoers access to some bacula files, and tell it where the bacula 
> executables are located.
> The bacularis developer is also on this list!
> https://bacularis.app/
>
> I personally recommend bacularis, and might advise against using the 
> bacularis docker container unless you're comfortable modifying its bacularis 
> instance to point to your bacula install. I might be misguided on the 
> necessity or difficulty of this, but when I tried the bacularis docker 
> container it came with its own bacula install, and I didn't want the 
> complication or potential for error. I'm also not very familiar with docker 
> containers, and wanted to go with a native install to avoid any surprises.
>
> When installing bacularis OR baculum, I personally used lighttpd, though 
> apache is also supported.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Gerber
> 402-237-8692
> r...@craeon.net
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 4:20 PM MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users 
> <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not a PHP expert and am looking for a lower barrier to entry.
>>
>> Is there a Docker container available holding the entire environment
>> required by the Bacula GUI that I can hook up to a client server?
>>
>> II've already set up director/sd/fd daemons on my cloud server and am
>> looking for an easier way to manage the system.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> <Myles>
>>
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