Jon Forrest wrote:
> 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.
From:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#what_to_backup_and_when_to_do_it
"This can be set to a string, an array of strings, or, in the case of
multiple shares, a hash of strings or arrays".
So if you have multiple shares on the same host you would use a hash,
with the special key of '*' to indicate values that apply to all of
them, otherwise they only apply to the specified key.
>>> (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.
Having multiple words for the same meaning sounds even more confusing,
especially if you change methods later. Maybe 'target' would have made
sense.
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