Re: [Bacula-devel] Protocol to speak with Director?

[Arno L. <al...@it...>]

Hi,

On 10/26/2006 8:30 AM, wol...@on... wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> i'm actually writing a Java-App to restore files. I need some information how to speak to the Director, to start the restore-command.
> Of course i read the development document, but it does not make things really easier for me.
> So i would be happy, if anyone could tell me, what i have to do to authenticate at director, and to send the restore command after that. Connecting on directors Listener-Port is no prob, but what have to follow after that?

You'll have to implement the authentication as used in Bacula itself. 
The source code itself might be be the most detailed documentation :-) 
or have a look for the work others have done - I think there was a pygtk 
frontend where the author implemented the app-DIR-communication.

What I'd prefer to do, though, is simply calling bconsole from your 
application and feed the necessary input to it.
You'll have to parse text output anyway as there is no real API for DIR 
access - it's mainly a text-based dialogue.

Arno

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