Where to find instructions on adding bacularis to a currently installed system

[Chris Ord]

Hiya,

I'm looking to switch from baculum to bacularis so I can hand this task over to someone else in my team. It's not clear if installing it will overwrite my current, mature, baula installation. Can someone point me to any info in the docs to this? I'm currently working through the docs but haven't seen anything obvious yet.

Cheers,

Chris

[Marcin Haba]

Hello Chris,

I guess you mean installation using binary deb/rpm packages. Bacularis uses its own directories in the system, different from Baculum uses. Bacularis does not have any path common with Baculum. In other words these two web interfaces can exist on the same system and installing Bacularis will not do anything with Baculum.

To install Bacularis please follow on instructions in the installation chapter of the Bacularis documentation:

https://bacularis.app/doc/brief/installation.html

By the way, your question might be a good paragraph to add to the documentation to the installation chapter. Thanks for pointing it. I will add it there.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

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[Marcin Haba]

Hello Chris,

I added a new section to the installation chapter named "Bacularis and Baculum":

https://bacularis.app/doc/brief/installation.html#bacularis-and-baculum

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

[Marcin Haba]

Hello Chris,

Yes, Bacularis (and Baculum too) works with existing Bacula configuration. It does not initialize anything in the Bacula configuration during installation.

The one thing worth mentioning in this point is that Bacularis and Baculum save Bacula configuration in one file per Bacula component. They are: bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf, bacula-fd.conf and bconsole.conf. If you have never configured Bacula through Baculum/Bacularis and you use external Bacula configuration files included by '@', on first save configuration by Baculum/Bacularis all the external config files will be included to the main configs. I mean that if in for example bacula-dir.conf you have the following include line:

@/etc/bacula/my_jobs.conf

then on first saving config the configuration from my_jobs.conf will be added to bacula-dir.conf. It can have meaning for administrators that configure Bacula both manually by editing files and via the web interface that they will use configuration included by '@' from external files inside main component files. Also if there are '#' comments between configuration lines, they will be stripped.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 05:43, Chris Ord <chri...@flyingbark.com.au> wrote:

That’s great,

That suggest the that if I spin up bacularis I don’t have to go through a complete configuration I can just point it at my existing bacula setup without risking it trying to overwrite anything. As a (very) long time user of Bacula I’m hoping to ease my team into the system and make it more accessible and easier for them to use.

Cheers,

Chris