bimagemgr.pl
-14 Nov 2004
+06 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
of this file prior to 1.36 do not support it. In that case it would be necessary after
a reboot of the server to execute '/etc/bacula/bacula restart'.
-For bacula-1.36 installed from rpm -
+For bacula-1.38 installed from tarball -
+1. Your configure statement should include:
+ --with-dir-user=bacula
+ --with-dir-group=bacula
+ --with-sd-user=bacula
+ --with-sd-group=disk
+ --with-fd-user=root
+ --with-fd-group=bacula
+2. Add the user apache to the bacula group for Red Hat or Mandrake systems.
+For SuSE systems add the user wwwrun to the bacula group.
+3. Check/change ownership of all of your Volume files to root.bacula
+
+For bacula-1.36 or bacula-1.38 installed from rpm -
1. Add the user apache to the group bacula for Red Hat or Mandrake systems.
For SuSE systems add the user wwwrun to the bacula group.
-2. Change ownership of all of your Volume files to root.bacula
+2. Check/change ownership of all of your Volume files to root.bacula
bimagemgr will now be able to read the Volume files but they are still not
world readable.
the backup Volume files to world read.
That's it. Call the script from a web browser as http://server/cgi-bin/bimagemgr.pl
-place a blank cd in your recorder and press a Burn button.
+place a blank cd in your recorder and press a Burn button. See the bimagemgr section
+in the bacula manual for more information.