Thanks for the report Mark. I'm glad to hear that Bacuview is working well for you in a production installation, particularly since I don't use MySQL in production, and so have only a small dummy MySQL database to test against here.
Since Fedora Core 5 was released a couple days ago, I'll go through a complete installation of Bacuview on that platform, and insure that I've addressed the rough spots in the installation instructions that you've reported. I've had other requests for some type of "query by filename" feature. I'll probably put this in place in the not-too-distant future, but I have a few other query clean-ups in mind that I'd like to get to first. As for extending this into a complete front-end for the restoration process, at this point I'd prefer to stick with query and reporting functions, and as you suggest, let bconsole and friends handle the restores (but then, prior to a few months ago, I had no idea that I'd be developing an application like Bacuview to begin with, so you never know!) -- John Kodis. On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote: > John Kodis wrote: > >I've just released version 1.3 of the Bacuview web application to > >its home on RubyForge, <http://bacuview.rubyforge.org/>, where you can > >go for screen shots and to read the NEWS, ChangeLog, and INSTALL > >files. > > > >In addition to the usual minor bug fixes, this release has one fairly > >major improvement: It now supports Bacula installations that use MySQL > >as their database engine. > > > >All that's needed to support a MySQL database is to set the adapter to > >mysql in the config/database.yml file. Bacuview picks this up and > >performs behind-the-scenes magic to deal with the naming differences > >between Postgres and MySQL databases. > > > >I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have, and to hear of any > >suggestions that you have for this project. I hope that you find it > >useful. > > Thank you for this. I installed it yesterday from scratch. Here are > some suggestions for the INSTALL page. > > > RUBY > ---- > > In this section you should also describe installation of IRB. I don't > know if this gets installed as part of building ruby from source, but in > Fedora Core 4 it is a separate rpm package and you need > "yum install irb". > > I don't know if it was necessary, but I also installed the rpms for > ruby-devel and ruby-mysql. > > GEM INSTALL > ----------- > > For mysql users you can skip the "gem install postgres" and instead do > "gem install mysql". If that fails (it did for me) you can try > "gem install mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config" or > something similar. Frankly, I tried so many things that I'm not sure > what finally worked. > > > Is there any chance this program could be extended to allow file > searches within the database? I'd love to be able to enter a partial > name of a file and get back a list of all occurrences of that name along > with the file dates and the jobs that contain it. Then I could go to > bconsole and jump right to the correct job for restoration. > > Ultimately, could it be a complete front end for file restoration? > > Thanks again, > Mark Nienberg > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
