Eric et al,
I didn't mean that the installer broke anything, just that the .conf.new
files it created (on windows) wouldn't work if I had used them since they
weren't probably substituted. But that's not a problem, just thought
somebody might want to know.
Those of us with a large bacula installation (>200 windows desktop/laptop
clients) could really use the new Tray Monitor for end users to monitor
their own backups. Apparently a lot of my Windows XP end-users were using
the status applet built into previous windows bacula-fd versions and
started to worry when they saw backups failing. They actually do miss that
functionality (lost when they were upgraded to Vista/Win7) so if we're
headed toward restoring that it would be great. If the installer could be
made to work for configuring the tray monitor that would be fantastic.
If they could trigger a manual backup with a GUI too that would be awesome!
Bob
On 8/8/2011 2:52 PM, Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hello Bob,
>
> On 08/08/2011 07:55 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote:
>> There appear to still be issues with the windows installer not making
>> fully functional config files. I ran the bacula-win64-5.2.0rc1.exe
>> on my own desktop computer (that was already installed with the 5.0.3
>> win64 fd). I used the Automatic option,...
>
> I don't have this problem here. When I install from scratch it had good
> config files, and when I upgrade, it keeps old ones.
>
>> Bacula didn't over-write my configs from what I can tell but the
>> conf.new files contain un-substituted @variables@. As a result, I
>> had to guess at the configs needed to make the tray monitor work.
>
> I don't think that the installer don't have the code to configure the
> tray monitor automatically. This would be a nice addition, I think that
> we had previously something like that for the windows wx console.
>
>> I can make it show the status of local jobs but the new "Run..."
>> option seems to require something I've left out.
>
> To run a job, you need to allow some commands in the monitor Console
> resource. By default, you have only ".status" and "status", but to run a
> job, you need also .job, .pool, .client, run and maybe few others.
>
> I will document this part ASAP.
>
> Thanks for your quick feedback.
>
> Bye
>
>> Also, I couldn't find any documentation on how to get the tray
>> monitor to work and couldn't figure out which parameter it wants that
>> isn't matching up right. It starts but has the following error:
>> "Authentication error : 1999 Authorization failed." Commenting out
>> the Storage and Director section fixes that, but that's why the
>> "Run..." menu item isn't working I'd bet. :)
>>
>> Can somebody post an explanation of which Name, Mon, and Password,
>> etc. values have to match values in the other appropriate conf file
>> that it is trying to authenticate against to get the spiffy new
>> client Run menu item to work?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
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