Craig Barratt wrote:
Les,
It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to
create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that
template.
Part of this feature is already available. When you create a host
you can first select the "Add" button. You then set the new host
as "NEWHOST=COPYHOST". This creates NEWHOST and copies the config
from COPYHOST.
You could create dummy hosts for each machine type (with backups disabled)
or just use a live machine as the COPYHOST.
Sorry, my last post only got sent back to Les Mikesell, summarizing below...
its close......and yeah i could create some dummy hosts that have
backups disabled......but i'd like to have say /etc/BackupPC/template
with a vista.pl, winxp.pl, localhost.pl, etc etc pre-configured. When i
install backuppc on a site, i drop in the template files. then into the
cgi to create hosts and apply a template without having to think about
setting up one host with the initial settings.
Maybe i can automate dropping in hosts with Backups disabled, email
notifications disabled (or to a dud address or every 999 days) and
setting the config's on these hosts to be read only. Then when adding
hosts you can say NEWHOST=vista or NEWHOST=winxp etc.
I'll give that a shot in the next couple of days and if that works out
ok i'd be happy with that.
Taking it a step further......when you select a template, before it
applies it prompts you with a list of those changes in the template,
giving you the ability to override or exclude some or all of the
template settings.
This isn't implemented currently and would take quite a bit of effort.
It's probably not much faster looking through a list of which settings
you want to accept from the template, versus just looking at the
settings themselves.
Your right, i just thought if it was easy to implement it might not take
that much extra to do.....obviously a lot of work for little gain, no
need to go to this extreme.
Thanks,
Les
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