"*Having said that, years ago, I had customers that LOVE LOVE LOVED BAT, and would not move away from it even at my urging, so
there is one reason, I guess. :)"
Frankly, I never understood this community's urge to regularly create "one more Bacula GUI", instead of just fixing and improve the state-of-art.
IMHO bacula.org should adopt and sponsor BAT and Bacularis/Baculum GUIs development, get people together, integrate bacula-web features and organize this mess. Rgds.
On Feb 2, 2024, at 10:32 AM, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On 2/2/24 05:48, Rob Gerber wrote:
As far as I know, BAT is available only with enterprise bacula.
Hello Rob, (and Howard Viccars),
BAT (Bacula Administration Tool) is a long-unmaintained QT graphical interface to 'manage' Bacula and is available in Community.
I say 'manage' because BAT is more like BMT (Bacula Management Tool) since you cannot configure anything using BAT, you can
only start, stop, monitor jobs and view information about your system (Clients, Jobs, Pools, Media, etc) just like with
bconsole. :)
I believe your choices with regard to bacula community are baculum, bacularis, and bacula-web.
Bacularis is a friendly fork of baculum, and is the better maintained package. Developer is on this list.
Bacula-web - I have not tested it, but I hear it provides good reporting, but no active control. Developer is on this list.
All good information.
And I would strongly urge to move away from BAT in favor of Bacularis (for example).
Bacularis, unlike BAT allows you to configure every aspect of your Bacula environment, and as Rob mentioned, Marcin Haba, a
Bacula Systems employee maintains it as an open-source and free tool, and he is quite active and helpful on this list. :)
Bottom line: Abandon BAT. It has not received any love in a very long time, and quite frankly I am sure it will not. It did
what it was designed to do, but now that we have some very powerful web gui administration tools, there is no reason not to
abandon it.* (Just my two cents)
*Having said that, years ago, I had customers that LOVE LOVE LOVED BAT, and would not move away from it even at my urging, so
there is one reason, I guess. :)
Best regards,
Bill
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