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#             brestore -- a bacula perl interface              #
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As we felt a need for a restoration GUI for bacula, we developed a simple
Perl/GTK GUI.  
It has the following features :

    * Direct SQL access to the database for good performance

    * Fast Time Navigation (switch almost instantaneously between the different
      versions of a directory, by changing the date from a list)

    * Possibility to choose a selected file, then browse all its available
      versions, and see directly if these versions are online in a library or
      not

    * Simple restoration by the generation of a BSR file

    * Works indifferently with postgresql and mysql 

We have a working (if a bit unpolished) version ready, and think it is time for
us to publish it and have user and Kern feedback.  

What's missing :

    * We want to add some other features such as : the user has selected a FD
      and a date, we want to display the list of media requested and their
      availability.

    * Plenty of features. As we don't have lots of imagination. Don't hesitate
      to suggest us your ideas ...

For the moment, we want to concentrate on having a restoration interface. We
don't care about seeing the restoration progress, or anything else.

These tools are available with Bweb.

################ INSTALL #######################################

# you can put glade file on /usr/share/brestore or /usr/local/share/brestore
mkdir -p /usr/share/brestore
install -m 644 -o root -g root brestore.glade /usr/share/brestore
install -m 755 -o root -g root brestore.pl    /usr/bin

# you must get Bconsole.pm from bweb modules (bweb/lib/Bconsole.pm)
install -m 644 -o root -g root Bconsole.pm /usr/share/perl5

################ INSTALL MODULES ###############################

Perl Modules
The Debian Way

apt-get install libgtk2-gladexml-perl
apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl
apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl
apt-get install libexpect-perl

The Red Hat way
Please contribute, neither of us have a Red Hat to test on :)
Other distros/Unices
Please contribute ...
The generic Way, if those modules aren't packaged by your distro

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Gtk2
install Expect
install Gtk2::GladeXML

install DBD::mysql
or
install DBD::Pg

################ BCONSOLE WITHOUT CONIO ########################

You must use bconsole without conio support. For that, use
bconsole -n option.

WARNING : You must be able to execute bconsole and able to read bconsole.conf !

################ CONFIGURATION #################################

You can make configuration from brestore himself (if brestore can find
his glade file).

Example :

$parameters = {
                'mozilla' => 'mozilla',
                'bconsole' => '/usr/local/bin/bconsole.noconio -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf',
                'bweb' => 'http://localhost/cgi-bin/bweb/bweb.pl',
                'connection_string' => 'DBI:mysql:database=bacula;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306',
                'username' => 'bacula',
                'password' => 'xxxx',
                'bsr_dest' => 'file://var/tmp',
                'debug' => 0,
                'use_ok_bkp_only' => 1,
                'default_restore_job' => 'restore'
              };