On Friday 19 March 2010 14:36:05 Moray Henderson wrote: > Silver Salonen wrote: > >On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote: > >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> >On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Moray Henderson wrote: > >> >> Hello everyone, > >> >> > >> >> Would there be any interest in a text user interface configuration > >> >> program for Bacula on Linux? We use an in-house system > >> administration > >> >> menu system for our Linux servers, and are considering switching > our > >> >> backup software to Bacula and writing a text-mode UI for it. If > this > >> >> does go ahead, I was wondering if it could be useful in the wider > >> >> community. > >> > > >> >Eh, there's bacula-console which does that already? Or did you have > >> >something else in mind? > >> > >> As far as I can make out, bacula-console requires X-Windows, which we > >> are not running. I haven't seen anything suggesting it will run on a > >> text console. If it does, it would simplify my job enormously. > > > >To me it sounded like you're looking for smth to change bacula's > >configuration > >with. So I didn't dare to say anything about bconsole, because this is > to > >do > >some administrative tasks in running server, rather than to configure > it. > >Configuration is purely text-files based. > > We're really aiming for a menu/forms interface to Bacula: there would be > a configuration section for managing the config files, and also > hopefully a more friendly front-end to bconsole.
This sounds very interesting. Have you already started work on this piece of software? What's the development platform for the project? -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
