Greetings all. We have been running bacula for a couple of years now
(presently on 1.36.3) and I have lurked in this forum off and on since
then. I did post some newbie questions back then as well.
My boss has tasked me with exploring the GUI consoles and showing them
to him so he can decide which one (and whether, I suppose) we want to
use. Thus far I have used bconsole and the WXwidgets console, but he
would prefer a gui.
When I installed Bacula, I did so enabling the gnome console. It runs,
but there is a problem. When I select the Run item from the menu bar, an
interactive window pops up offering me Job, Client, Fileset, Level, etc.
Each of these lines is blank, of course, and there is a drop-down button
to the right of each one. Pressing this button reveals a blank list,
however, and the line accepts no input from the keyboard. I know it is
connecting to the director, though, because the Command: line works just
like bconsole.
My boss also recalls seeing screen shots for another kind of gui that
seemed to offer drag and drop capability, but I can't find any reference
to anything other than the gnome, WXwidgets and bconsole in the manual.
We also wonder if there is a KDE gui either available or in development.
I see nothing in the manual or on your web site ("Current State of
Bacula").
For the record, we are a Novell NetWare shop running some Winders
servers and also some Linux servers. We run Bacula on RH 9 and it backs
up data on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v. 9 box. Because of the
direction Novell is taking, our plans are to migrate our remaining
NetWare servers to SLES 10 or OES Linux ("Open Enterprise Server" on
SLES 9). At that time we will abandon Backup Exec and use Bacula
exclusively (once I figure out how to get Bacula to use our
Exabyte/Ecrix tape library). In fact, I will almost surely be tasked
with re-installing Bacula on a SLES 10 server. When that happens, I have
little doubt that I will visit this forum more frequently. I'll see if
there is some way I can get the county to contribute to the cause,
though that might be difficult (what would we put on the PO?). I'd be
glad to send you a case of beer, but it's a long way to Switzerland and,
anyway, you've got better talent locally (although the microbreweries
that have cropped up here in the last dozen years have certainly
improved the landscape).
--
Tks n rgds,
Richard White CNE6
Network Engineer
Mason County, Washington
360-427-5501
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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