Craig Barratt wrote:
First of all, thanks so much for replying. Please take my comments
as respectful suggestions.
> Your BackupFilesOnly is backwards. It should map the share name
> to the list of files/directories to backup for that share:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
> '/' => ['/etc/namedb', '/etc/named.conf'],
> };
This worked. Thanks!. That said,
1) How could I have known that this was required from reading the documentation?
The documentation for BackupFilesOnly says: "List of directories or files to
backup.
If this is defined, only these directories or files will be backed up.".
Then, the 3rd paragraph confuses the issue by saying "A hash is used to give a
list
of directories or files to backup for each share (the share name is the key)".
This doesn't say when I'd need a hash as opposed to a simple string, as shown
in the first example.
2) Doing all this right from the web interface isn't obvious. Although
the documentation says the share name is the key the web interface would
be clearer if the Include/Exclude section used the word "share" rather
than "key".
3) I suggest you add verbage describing the behavior when both BackupFilesOnly
and BackupFilesExclude are given for rsync.
>> (I'm not sure what "share" really means when backing up Unix systems).
>
> It depends on the Xfer method. BackupPC started with only smb for PCs,
> which use the "share" terminology. For tar and rsync, share means the
> absolute directory path. For rsyncd it means the rsyncd module name.
Having these multiple meanings for a word that, at least in the Windows world,
has a fixed meaning makes things less clear. It would be nice if you could
only use "share" for smb and use something else, like "file system" for
rsync and tar. I suspect that doing so would make my issue #1 above
go away.
Anyway, thanks for the great work. I have great plans for BackupPC.
Cordially,
--
Jon Forrest
Unix Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
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