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:

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#!/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
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All the comments and questions are very welcome :)