Uhm, sorry, just read this thread.
We have made something like this for our company,
I am sure we did not match all the requirements.
But we use a XML file and then generate the config file.
The program is writen in php.
I will try to make it available in the next few days.
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On 5/2/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 26 April 2007 23:32, Darien Hager wrote:
> David Boyes wrote:
> >> Brainstorming idea: XML with Schema validation?
> >>
> >> * The config would be a plain file and portable.
> >
> > Ugh. "plain XML" is a matter of opinion -- XML of any real complexity
> > couldn't be hand-coded.
>
> Well, myself I have very similar Job and Client definitions for about 60
> machines and using python to generate a config from parsed text files
> and applied to templates, so I'm not precisely hand-coding anyway.
>
> I'd argue that for small set-ups, simply copy-pasting and modifying
> given boilerplate will work... and for larger networks you won't want to
> deal with the config by hand regardless of how elegant and tersely you
> can type it, in which case a well defined config style is an asset.
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Oh. Uhm. I tried to find out your reasons back then, except that
> SourceForge automatically puts "xml" into most messages as part of it's
> recent advertising for DB2. <onomatopoeia>sigh</onomatopoeia> :P
Well, your xml above shows many of the problems that I have with xml :-)
1. it is read only with extreme difficulty by humans (at least by me).
2. the probability of a human (me) updating it correctly in a recovery
situation with vi is pretty low.
3. it has enormous bloat -- i.e. to put in a single digit number requires
much
more space than an ASCII file.
I have no problems with putting the bacula conf files in to the database
if
someone wants to do so. However, I don't foresee any change in the ASCOO
format that Bacula requires -- i.e. I don't foresee Bacula reading its
conf
file directly from an SQL database. So such a program would probably need
to
be external to Bacula and probably will need to read the current conf
format -- at least will need to keep up with the additions/modifications
that
are made to the conf format (there are a bunch for 2.2.0).
A recent feature submission, including the patch, from Jorj Baur could
facilitate feeding conf files to the various Bacula components via a pipe.
However that code is not yet integrated. I (or someone else) need(s) to
modify it to use Bacula internal pipe calls, which are OS "neutral" rather
than Unix pipes.
>
>
> --Darien Hager
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