On 05/28/2011 02:35 PM, Silver Salonen wrote:
> 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 :)
> 

Hi Silver,

I don't want to stop you, but firstly this kind of tools already exist see
http://www.bacula-konferenz.de/historie/2010/dassmodus-bacula-konfiguration-gui/at_download/file

It's only available on the enterprise edition, but yeap it's enterprise ready!

The second thing where I saw a trouble with your draft is the use of Mysql. 
Bacula is in a way db agnostic, so you have to
support as a minimal : postgresql, mysql, sqlite (will be drop), libdbi, and 
don't forget the enterprise like Oracle, sysbase,
DB2 etc.
Without that, I don't expect a large adoption.

For example I can tell you that I don't love your configuration line. I already 
have all my information in the MyCatalog dir
conf. Why would I add yet another configuration.

Sorry :-)

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