bimagemgr.pl
-07 May 2006
+14 May 2006
This is a utility to monitor and burn file backups to CDR. It is a web
based interface written in perl. It requires perl and an apache or other
http server. It also requires the perl DBI module and the driver for the
database used to store your bacula catalog. It has been tested on MySQL
-catalogs but an untested configuration is present for Postgresql.
+catalogs but an untested configuration is present for Postgresql and SQLite.
It can be run on the same server as bacula or on another machine on the
network if you are willing to relax permissions on the backup Volume files
(see below).
-Installation:
-
+Installation from tarball:
1. Examine the Makefile and adjust it to your configuration if needed.
2. Edit config.pm to fit your configuration.
3. Do 'make install' as root.
case I set it to 1000 seconds. Restart httpd.
5. Make sure that cdrecord is setuid root.
+Installation from rpm package:
+1. Install the rpm package for your platform.
+2. Edit /cgi-bin/config.pm to fit your configuration.
+3. Edit httpd.conf and change the Timeout value. The web server must not time
+out and close the connection before the burn process is finished. The exact
+value needed may vary depending upon your cd recorder speed and whether you are
+burning on the bacula server on on another machine across your network. In my
+case I set it to 1000 seconds. Restart httpd.
+4. Make sure that cdrecord is setuid root.
+
For bacula systems less than 1.36:
-1. Edit the configuration section of create_cdimage_table.pl to fit your configuration.
+1. Edit the configuration section of config.pm to fit your configuration.
2. Run /etc/bacula/create_cdimage_table.pl from a console on your bacula
server (as root) to add the CDImage table to your bacula database.
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