BWeb Configuration Module Limitations

If you do not intend to use the configuration module, nothing will be changed on your configuration files and you can skip this section.

In version 6.4 of the Bweb Configuration Module module, some advanced Bacula configurations are not supported.

Dir Addresses
Sd Addresses
Fd Addresses
Counter Resource

To edit the configuration with BWeb, BWeb should be installed on the same machine as the Director.

Comments

During the initialization of the BWeb configuration module, comments present in your configuration files will be striped out. You may keep some comments by using the Description directive.

# Job for John's Laptop, available from 6pm to 8am
Job {
  Name = Laptop-001
  ...
}

Can be adapted to:

Job {
  Name = Laptop-001
  Description = "John's laptop, available from 6pm to 8am"
  ...
}

Special Configuration Layout

If you are using @ in your configuration files to include sub-files, Bweb Configuration Module module will not use them anymore.

Once initialized, the configuration layout will have the following structure:

# find /opt/bacula/etc
bacula-dir.conf
conf.d/Director/
conf.d/Director/your-dir
conf.d/Director/your-dir/bacula-dir.conf
conf.d/Director/your-dir/JobDefs
conf.d/Director/your-dir/JobDefs/DefaultJob.cfg
conf.d/Director/your-dir/Messages
conf.d/Director/your-dir/Messages/Daemon.cfg
conf.d/Director/your-dir/Messages/Standard.cfg
...

This special configuration layout will imply some changes on how resources will be displayed in bconsole menus. Resources will be displayed in alphanumeric order instead of configuration file definition order. For more information, see Changes in bconsole.