Hello, Adam Porter wrote (18 Feb 2006 05:12:58 GMT) : > It'd be really nice if backupninja supported exclude lists in > separate files. I'm converting my cronned rsync backups to > backupninja, but this means that I must put my exclude statements in > the /etc/backup.d/99.rdiff file, instead of in a separate file in my > home directory, like I've been doing, which makes it very easy and > quick to add an exclude for something I no longer need or want > backed up. > > In fact, what would really be nice is if backupninja supported > a ~/.backupninja file in which every user could specify what he did > not want backed up in the system's backupninja backups. Then the > sysadmin could turn on an option in his backupninja rdiff config to > use those files. > > For myself, it's a one-user system, so it's only a bit more trouble > to add the excludes as root. But for a multi-user system, I imagine > it would be quite useful.
Allowing non-root users to configure a daemon running as root is a bit tricky and error-prone... these per-user excludes should be cleaned in a way or another before being fed to duplicity/rdiff command lines. It seems therefore quite improbable to me we add such a feature to backupninja. Ciao, -- intrigeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | gnupg key @ http://intrigeri.boum.org/intrigeri.asc | If you must label the absolute, use it's proper name: Temporary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
