-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Boyes wrote: >>> The design of a GUI for bacula may revolve arround interfacing with >>> the dameons. I was wondering >>> if just designing a GUI for config file modification might simply >>> suffice, i.e. a config file editor with >>> the smarts of syntax checking and linking of all the resources in >>> the main bacula-dir.conf file. >>> Most of the cfg files do not change much or at all. The file most >>> often modified is the bacula-dir.conf >>> It would much easier to just concentrate on that task rather than >>> designing a GUI which interacts with the >>> dir daemon. > > I'd rather see a majority of the configuration moved into database > tables. > > As more organizations move towards a configuration management database > approach (CMDB), controlling configuration is going to be more important > and more complex. > > Flat files are nice from a simplicity point of view, but the syntax is > becoming complex enough that it might be smarter (and easier to maintain > across multiple systems) to normalize it and move it into a RDBMS. It > would also allow real-time updates more easily. > > Maybe the easy approach would be to write a tool to maintain the > configuration in the database, and then auto-generate the appropriate > files from the database tables.
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. At least, that is my understanding of Kern's POV, and I'm pretty sure I agree. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMMJNmb+gadEcsb4RAmHcAKCZxWujY9mYyd5upL1NTogkIuw6PQCdFWKW zmT/m1rdfjtRk6JjXHm3XyI= =YnIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
