Re: baculabackupreport script error

That's perfectly reasonable. I just got confused by the help screen
thinking that since the -C option is in [ ] I took that to mean optional.
Now I know to call with the -C option.

Thanks

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, 21:53 Bill Arlofski, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 04:11, Chris Wilkinson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I got your Python script working but only if I include the -C
> <baculabackupreport.ini> in the command line. Otherwise it complains that
> email is missing, cannot connect to dB and a few other things. It looks
> like it's not finding the configuration file that I put in my home
> directory. With -C it does find it.
> >
>
> > Is there no default for this parameter?
> >
>
> > -Chris Wilkinson
>
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> Since there are defaults for practically everything (eg: the db name, db
> user, db password, number of hours, days, etc), the only variable required
> which cannot have a default is the email address. This must be set on the
> command line, or as an environment variable, or in a [section] of a config
> file.
>
> Since the config file is not required, there is no default for it, and it
> can be located anywhere you like. I could think of no "correct" location
> for a default config file since there is Bacula Enterprise and several
> different package maintainers for Bacula Community, each choosing different
> places for "bacula stuff" to reside. :)
>
> Also, you will notice that in the example config file, the [DEFAULT]
> section is basically blank - because everything already has some default
> setting. If you have a different name for your Bacula catalog DB, or you
> have set a DB user other than the default 'bacula', or you have set a
> password other than the default "<no password>", then you can set them in
> the environment, on the command line, or in a specified [section] of a
> specified config file.
>
> So, if you specify just the -C /path/to/config/file and -S <name of
> [section] in config file>, everything else can be set/overridden in the
> config file, keeping your cron line nice and short/clean. :)
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Arlofski
> [email protected]

-Chris Wilkinson

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