UI Frontend

[abbbi]

hi,

Ive started working on a simple UI frontend for virtnbdbackup.

The Frontend is aimed to work as a central point to configure multiple remote KVM
hosts as backup sources and their respective backup targets. It is using the GNU
task-spooler to queue backup jobs. Scheduling is handled by standard CRON, the
cronjob files are however created automatically by the web frontend.

The monitoring and start of the backups is handled by an REST based API service.
It is still in very alpha state, the featureset is:

• configure multiple remote kvm hosts and select which vms you want to backup, with different options
• creates crontab files based on the users date/time/selection that trigger the backup operation via API endpoint
• monitors the results in an simple overview which lets investigate failures.
• the queue can be limited to an certain amount of jobs

for simplicity, it is using sqlite as database to store the results.

Ill drop some Screenshots, showing the configuration steps for the host and the simple
frontend:

simple view of queue/active jobs:

At the current state, im not going to provide source code access, but if people want to test it, ill happily share
binary releases for alpha testing and feedback .

[draggeta]

Oh wow, I'd definitely want to test it. I started writing something in flask-appbuilder but never managed to get beyond scheduling a backup due to time constraints.

[niq83]

I also want to test . I backup vms from multiple vanila KVM hosts using virtnbdbackup bash scripts and cron jobs, a GUI would help

[abbbi]

ui-0.1.zip

Attached is a first alpha version of the UI (debian, binary release only, at its current state).
The application installs into /opt.

To start the application and initialize the database, use:

/opt/virtnbdui/bin/app

the database and spooler directory is initialized in the directory the application is startup.
You can access the webfrontend via localhost on port 8080
The webfrontend will create an cronjob file within the specified cronjob folder that needs to be scheduled.