On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Kevin Keane wrote:

> Hemant Shah wrote:
>> --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Frank Sweetser <fs AT WPI DOT EDU> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Frank Sweetser <fs AT WPI DOT EDU>
>>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?
>>> To: "junior.listas" <junior.listas AT gmail DOT com>
>>> Cc: "bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net" <bacula-users AT 
>>> lists.sourceforge DOT net 
>>> >
>>> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 9:48 PM
>>> junior.listas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Configuration data ( whatever is in the config file )
>>>>
>>> may be placed on
>>>
>>>> the database or xml files, this can simplify bacula
>>>>
>>> use in web|gtk
>>>
>>>> interfaces or appliances.
>>>>
>>> Sorry, but that's a feature that's not likely to be
>>> implemented any time soon:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#why_doesn_t_bacula_store_configuration_in_the_catalog_database
>>>
>>
>>
>>  Converting it to an XML file would not pose the problems specified  
>> in the above wiki, there are lots of tools to create/parse XML  
>> files tha could be useful.
>>
> How about a way to make everybody happy? Store the config in the
> database to make it easy to manipulate in Web pages and the like - I  
> do
> think this would be a nice-to-have. Use an export and import  
> function to
> text files - this will address the issues listed in the Wiki.  
> Obviously,
> the export should be automatic after each change, and the import  
> should
> be manual.

There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from writing such a beast.

Except it appears that nobody *wants* to write it.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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