On 3/19/2010 8:36 AM, 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.
>
>
Have you looked at Webmin (www.webmin.com)? Different approach, using a
web interface, but is otherwise similar to what you describe, It allows
configuring Bacula from a remote workstation with a browser, so doesn't
require X on the server.
> Moray.
> "To err is human. To purr, feline"
>
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