On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:43 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday 19 June 2009 17:04:50 Dirk Bartley wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I'd like to start a project to create a page that would allow a user to > > create filesets with a gui in bat. In order to do this, I would need > > some changes to the director and possibly to the file daemon. > > I think this would be a great project. It is probably a bit overdue, and I > like starting with something a bit smaller than the whole conf file.
Smaller bites are better. :) > > > > > I would like to have the ability to query the director for the current > > state of files on a file daemon. Not sure exactly what something like > > that would look like, but possibly something to the effect of > > > > .queryfiledaemon client=hostname-fd directory=/etc/init.d > > > > which would return the current contest of the /etc/init.d directory on > > the client client=hostname-fd (obviously :-) > > Well, essentially, "estimate" does this, but I think for your purposes it > will > need to be enhanced, and possibly even turned into a .estimate to get a more > machine readable format. I'm okay with just about any syntax. > > I'm hoping that I could request a modification like that so that I could > > begin to work on a new page. We may have to take into consideration a > > command to request roots. So for windows it could return c:/ d:/ .. .. > > I believe most of the mechanisms we need are already in place. It is just a > question of understanding the whole "page" you want to create so that we can > be sure to design in the necessary capabilities from the beginning -- even if > we don't implement everything from the beginning. > > Can you be just a bit more explicit what the page will look like? My thoughts were of using the restore browser as a starting point. This new fileset interface would not need the jobs widget or the versions widget. The work done to make it so that there are black check marks for explicitly included and grey check marks for included by being a subdirectory should be useful. I'd want to start out with making it be able to create a fileset from scratch. Then later .. .. work toward some mechanism of parsing existing fileset resources to prepopulate when opening. The difficult part I think will be adding an options. Where the user is given the ability to add the many options that are available in the interface. Dirk > > Best regards, > > Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
