On 2/2/24 10:25, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
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. :)
BAT still does everything I want a Bacula console to do. The things
that it does NOT do, like configuration, I don't WANT it to; I want to
do those myself, by hand, using a proper editor.
To be truthful, I detest the "Everything is a web page/application"
model. I have not, to be fair, tried either Baculum or Bacularis, but
my general experience is that web-based applications tend to be
uniformly awful. Especially web-based admin interfaces.
For example, I briefly tried to deploy a QNAP NAS that used a web admin
interface, and there were basic security functions that you simply
*COULD NOT DO* via the admin GUI. It was not merely hidden, it was
*impossible*. Webmin, cpanel, ... uniformly ghastly.
Your mileage may of course vary.
I will note that there are a few known bugs in BAT, notably that some
purge operations can produce *multiple* simultaneous pop-up confirmation
alerts that can be confusing.
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