[Bacula-users] scripts for holding configuration in database

Hello Bacula users :)

For a long time I've been thinking about and trying to create a web-based tool 
for configuring Bacula. For keeping things simple and flexible, I'd thought on 
keeping all the configuration in a database. So I've created a database layout 
and a few Ruby scripts (60KB) that use this database for quering and 
manipulating configuration.

The point for writing about it is to ask whether anyone would be interested in 
these scripts. If so, I could create a software project (eg. in Sourceforge) 
for that and share the scripts with everybody. If the scripts would turn out to 
be of use, we could then make them better together etc :)


So a bit more about the scripts..

I have named the Ruby classes beginning with 'BaculaConf' and they are:
  - BaculaConf - configuration consisting of multiple sections
  - BaculaConfSection - configuration section having all the parameters and 
sub-sections
  - BaculaConfMysql - MySQL backend for querying and manipulating configuration 
in MySQL
  - BaculaConfFileParser - backend for parsing configuration from files (eg. 
for importing configuration into MySQL)

So far I've used the classes for importing my quite complex Bacula 
configuration into the database and I've also created a Ruby on Rails 
application for managing the configuration.

Using the configuration in bacula-dir.conf would be just like this: 
@"|baculaConf_dir.rb", and baculaConf_dir.rb would have something like:

=====
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
dirConfig = BaculaConf.new(BaculaConfMysql.new({"host" => "localhost", "user" 
=> "baculauser", "password" => "baculapassword", "database" => "bacula-conf"}, 
false), nil, true, true, false)
dirConfig.printSections
=====


All the comments and questions are very welcome :)

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