Thanks Dan, misunderstood your first post. This is a very good pointer!
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Pritts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:56 PM
To: Eric Lepage
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] client specifid config.pl relocation
I meant just make a symlink from the topdir area for each config.pl
file you wanted to put elsewhere.
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:41:05PM -0400, Eric Lepage wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> Yes, but this would move everything, backups and logs. We just want to move
> the config.pl on the fixed disk because the disks will be swapped after each
> backup and if something is changed on what must actually be copied for one
> user, it would reside on the disk which was installed at the moment of the
> modification.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Pritts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:19 AM
> To: Eric Lepage
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] client specifid config.pl relocation
>
>
> I expect you should be able to make a symbolic link from the TopDir area
> to whatever location you want.
>
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:08:56AM -0400, Eric Lepage wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for reposting this message if the members received it twice, I had
> > subscribed to the list with an email address which is aliased by our email
> > server. Hence my post were considered as coming from a non-member.
> >
> > We've been using BackupPC for a while but never try to modify it until
> > recently. We have a setup where the backups are done on a removable disk
> > now. Since the config file is located under backuppc pc fodler along with
> > the backups and logs, when the disk is removed, so is each user
> > configuration settings. Is it possible to relocate each pc config.pl
> > elsewhere (i.e. in this case, on the fixed disk) than having this file
> > reside next to the logs and actual backup file.
> >
> > I've worked a little with Perl but I'm looking for an easier solution than
> > creating a 2nd "TopDir" environment variable to handle the config file
> > separately.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
> danno
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