Hi,
I know I am a little late with this comment and it is probably not
welcome... But I feel it needs stating....
<...RANT...>
I am not happy with the client-specific gui (bat).
It would surely be better to have a server based gui run from a web-browser -
what I had hoped bacula-web would become.
I don't much look forward to only being able to run the bat gui on linux boxes
& other UNIX clients to which it has been ported.
OK, you will no doubt port it to windows also - but consider that I can run
bacula-web from any web enabled device even my mobile phone!
Surely bacula-web should be further developed to provide the kind of
functionality for a bacula-server that swat does for samba & the cups
web-interface does for cups etc.....
<...END of RANT...>
In the meantime - back to my development network reliably secured with bacula -
Thanks to Kern et al.
Andrew R Paterson
DS Ltd.
www.ds.co.uk
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Admin Tool (bat)
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 17:48, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> > Not to be chomping at the bit here, but I guess questions that I have
> > are A) How hard is it likely to be to get this thing built for Windows?
> > I don't expect you to have an answer for that as I suppose Robert does
> > most of the Windows work, but I'd be curious to know. B) If anyone is
> > familiar with this, on Solaris, is there a set of files that one can add
> > to a system that is relatively lightweight to support something like
> > this? Perhaps you have other KDE apps and know how this works. In my
> > experience, most distros want the qt libs package, but then that package
> > wants about 30 others.
> >
> > Thanks for any insights from the peanut gallery. I'd love to start using
> > this, but would pass for the time being if it will require extensive
> > dependency building.
>
> I'll just reply to the Solaris part.
>
> I typically grab a good deal of this sort of stuff from sunfreeware. I
> try not to get things I don't need, but when you have a chain of
> dependencies, you don't have much choice -- either you want that
> capability or you scrap the whole thing.
>
> I have a directory /usr/local/pkg and a directory /usr/local/src, and I
> keep everything I have installed in one or the other of those. Some
> things you need source, some things it's unnecessary overhead and trouble.
>
> For me, Solaris is for servers. My desktop is Mac OS X. I don't use any
> graphical interface on my servers. I typically have a dozen or more
> terminal windows open with ssh sessions.
>
> If I were going to use a gui for something like bacula, I would want it
> at my desktop, not on the server. So, while my backup servers and
> everything would be on Solaris,
> I would want a client/server arrangement
> where I could do the administration from a gui on my Mac. Don't know if
> that fits with the current plan, but it seems most logical to me --
> architecturally more robust and not caught up in the exporting of
> graphical interface through something like X11. From my perspective,
> that's not what a server ought to be spending its time doing. I would
> want the bacula install to be modular enough that I wouldn't have to
> install the graphical stuff on my server.
What is written above is not totally clear to me. The bat is a GUI
application that will run on a large variety of machines Linux, Windows,
Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and others. The communications to the Director
does not use X11 but simple TCP/IP. There is no requirement to have the GUI
installed on the server.
>
>
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