On 10/02/16 14:41, Ian Douglas wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2016 18:56:31 Kern Sibbald wrote: > >> For simple "manual" things such as what you are doing, it is *far* >> easier to use bconsole. Bat is far more useful when you are looking at >> a number of Volumes or Job reports, ... Bat is not particularly good >> at doing console type input. > > Just found it odd, I assumed bat was a frontend to bconsole and so didn't > bother trying bconsole because I figured if bat couldn't make it work, I > wouldn't be able to either ...
No, it's more of an alternate console. But there are some things it doesn't do well, like handling multiple warning/confirmation/status messages emitted from a single command. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users