On Friday 19 March 2010 14:36:05 Moray Henderson wrote:
> 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.

This sounds very interesting. Have you already started work on this piece of 
software? What's the development platform for the project?

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Silver

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