Silver Salonen wrote:
>On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote:
>> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> >On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Moray Henderson wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> Would there be any interest in a text user interface configuration
>> >> program for Bacula on Linux?  We use an in-house system
>> administration
>> >> menu system for our Linux servers, and are considering switching
our
>> >> backup software to Bacula and writing a text-mode UI for it.  If
this
>> >> does go ahead, I was wondering if it could be useful in the wider
>> >> community.
>> >
>> >Eh, there's bacula-console which does that already? Or did you have
>> >something else in mind?
>>
>> As far as I can make out, bacula-console requires X-Windows, which we
>> are not running.  I haven't seen anything suggesting it will run on a
>> text console.  If it does, it would simplify my job enormously.
>
>To me it sounded like you're looking for smth to change bacula's
>configuration
>with. So I didn't dare to say anything about bconsole, because this is
to
>do
>some administrative tasks in running server, rather than to configure
it.
>Configuration is purely text-files based.

We're really aiming for a menu/forms interface to Bacula: there would be
a configuration section for managing the config files, and also
hopefully a more friendly front-end to bconsole.


Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"





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