Datagard - Midgard administration made easy

Thu 21st October 2004 08:29 EEST

Datagard is a Midgard database administration tool made by a Polish Midgard developer Piotras. The point is to simplify regular Midgard backend administration tasks like creating new databases, converting them to MultiLang, creating Apache VirtualHost configurations and importing Repligard packages.

Datagard was first introduced with the first 1.6 releases of Midgard. Back in the days it used to work somewhat irrationally, despite Piotras' notions of "perfect software". However, since Midgard is moving towards MultiLang setups (database format has changed) and I've had to convert packages by hand, which is extremly nasty business, I've been looking forward to see Datagard really kick it.

So, with the installation of Midgard 1.6.0rc2 and the latest Datagard I set to work to upgrade MidCOM core and components to one of Nemein's client's server. And behold! Datagard actually worked out-of-the-box (at least for importing packages), only symlinks to the previously created blob directories had to be made.

Personally, the package conversion has been the single biggest drawback in turning fully to MultiLang. With that problem gone we are now able to import packages fast and efficiently via UI - no more writing series of replication commands.

What else can I say besides "Thank You Piotras"!