* Direct SQL access to the database for good performance
- * Fast Time Navigation (switch almost instantaneously between the different
+ * Fast Time Navigation (switches 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
* Simple restoration by the generation of a BSR file
- * Works indifferently with postgresql and mysql
+ * Works with either PostgreSQL or 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.
+us to publish it and have user and Kern's feedback.
What's missing :
* Plenty of features. As we don't have lots of imagination. Don't hesitate
to suggest us your ideas ...
+ * We want use Bacula to generate bsr files, at this time, you can't restore
+ files across different Storage (Full on tape, Incr on Disk for example)
+
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
-
-# to copy bsr file directly to your director, use must use scp (or nfs stuff)
-# if you doesn't want to use this, you can dump the bsr file with "Gen BSR" button.
-# so you must have an ssh-key exchange. (you can also hack brestore.pl to use
-# something like '$err = `xterm -e scp $src $1 2>&1`'
-
-your_login@yourws:~$ ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/your_pub_key login@bacula-dir
-
-# you have to configure brestore preferences.
-
-################ 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'
- };
+brestore is also available within Bweb.