Re: [Bacula-devel] BAT and catalog/database selection

[<ma...@fr...>]

Thank you, Kern, for your answer.
OK, for one unique database.

A last question before possibly going on bacula-users list.

The feature I am interested for is the ability for a final PC user to
manage its own restore operations.

With Bat, the "version browser" window is very intuitive and very
interesting for starting a restore.

For a question of confidentiality, two conditions are required :
- the user must see and access the contents of his backups.
- he must not see nor acces the backup contents of the other users.

So, is this feature possible with bacula ?
Is a named console for each user with ACL commands a safe solution ?
Or, from your point of view, is bacula restore operations only reserved
for sysadmin and computer managers ?

Best regards,

Michel
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Le 23/06/2010 18:00, Kern Sibbald a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Neither bat nor bconsole work very smoothly with multiple databases.  It does
> work, but in some cases it can get confused.  There is no reason 99.9% of all
> installations to use more then one database, and if you are in the 0.1%,
> which I doubt, then you really need professional support.  If you put all
> jobs in one database most of your problems will probably go away.
>
> If you have any more questions, please ask them on the bacula-users list.  We
> are no longer able to give support on this list.
>
> If you want to submit a Feature Request, please see www.bacula.org ->  Feature
> Request.  However, please note that in this case, I am not sure it is
> something we want to do, since it is something that works *far* better having
> all users in the same database.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
> On Wednesday 23 June 2010 16:59:44 ma...@fr... wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   We backup every user PC with bacula 5.0.2.
>>   For each user,  we configure a different mysql database and a named
>> console with a list of restricted ACL commands list
>> (http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html
>> #SECTION0018180000000000000000). Example :
>>
>> Console {
>>    Name = CONSOLEpomartin
>>    Password = "......"
>>    JobACL = JOBpomartin,JOB-RESTORE-pomartin
>>    ClientACL = po-martin-fd,bacula-fd
>>    StorageACL = FILEpomartin
>>    ScheduleACL = PLANIFpomartin
>>    PoolACL = "POOL-Full-pomartin","POOL-Diff-pomartin","POOL-Incr-pomartin"
>>    FileSetACL = LOTpomartin
>>    CatalogACL = CATpomartin
>>    CommandACL = *all*
>>    WhereACL= "c:/temp","e:/temp","/tmp"
>>
>>   This named console is used by Bat from the user PC. Example of bat.conf :
>>
>> Director {
>>    Name = bacula-dir
>>    DIRport = 9101
>>    address = bacula
>>    Password="......"
>> }
>>
>> Console {
>>    Name = CONSOLEpomartin
>>    Password="....."
>> }
>>
>>
>>   When Bat starts, it displays four error messages "You must specify a use
>> catalog-name command before continuing", "Could not find catalog
>> resources". After entering the use command, the connection with the
>> catalog/database is OK.
>>
>>   For a more comprehensive usage by the users who doesn't understand these
>> error messages, would it be possible that bat connects directly to the
>> catalog/database configured for this user/PC ?
>>   Could Bat use the CatalogACL directive specified in the Console Resource
>> of the director ?
>>   Or, would it be possible to add an optional "Catalog directive" in the
>> bat.conf ?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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