I think you both would be best served by taking a look at the admin
guide. Not only are there screenshots in it, but an explanation of how
processes that I've never used work as well.
If you need anything more specific (perhaps something weakly pictorially
demonstrated in the manual), let me know.
http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/
Click on Data Protector, then the various manuals show up. The Admin
Guide would probably be most helpful .They're all in PDF.
The way the left pane is handled is with icons with a [+] next to them
ones that are expandable, like in Windows explorer. The behavior is as
you described, except that information shows up in the right pane even
as you click on some of the objects that can be expanded (like I said
before, media, or pools, etc.).
One thing that you can't intuitively do in data protector is see the
filesets and files on a particular media. This is hidden off in a
different section, and IIRC, you really can't even see that well until
you attempt to try a restore. Otherwise, you can scan a tape to see
what's on it. However, the catalog knows all this stuff so I don't see
any reason that you shouldn't be able to go down to info on an
individual fileset and then browse files.
Hope this helps -- happy holidays!
Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
This idea sounds very promising for organizing the GUI and how to present the
info.
I know it is a bit of a pain, but a couple of screen shots could help us with
the details a bit. E.g. does clicking on one of the different categories on
the left expand it, then when you reach the bottom, does it show the
information in the right window much like a file browser?
On Thursday 24 November 2005 05:12, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
HP's Data Protector is reasonably well designed on a very basic level.
More interesting/difficult functionality is very poorly designed, but at
far as interface goes, it works reasonably well.
What they did was to include several different trees on the left side
for each category of object. Clicking on the category name (ie. media)
would do the equivalent of list pools in the right pane. Clicking on a
pool would do the equivalent of a more brief form list media pool=blah,
and clicking on a volume would show all of the info on the volume (ie. a
slightly more detailed view of list media, but with only the tape in
question).
The same was done when delving into schedules. Filesets were lumped into
schedules, however, there was a template section that could be about the
same.
Hope this helps. I could take screenshots, but I think the concept
should suffice.
Lucas Di Pentima wrote:
Hi people!
I'm trying to contribute to the bacula project by making a graphical
user interface, and I would like to ask you if you have any example of a
well designed user interface for a backup software, so that I can get
some ideas from it. If you can make some screenshots, they'll be very
welcome!
Best regards,
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