On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Dale Snell wrote:

> If you specify bank: as having a directory "current", then that directory
> needs to exist.  Your vault directory would be contained within
> "../current".  Within that vault directory, you need to have a
> subdirectory "dirvish" containing the "default.conf" file.  OTOH, if you
> want "current" to be your vault, _it_ contains "dirvish/default.conf", and
> is _not_ in the bank specification.  Your "runall:" entry specifies the
> vaults you want to back up.

Dale,

   I tried following the HOWTO Web page and find it inconsistent and
ambiguous. That's why I wrote for review of the files.

   I don't care what the bank and vault names are, as long as it works. I can
change the bank name to dirvish, since the HOWTO suggests that I need a
directory by that name containing the default.conf. As for vaults, I'm
backing up only the one host, and I want all partitions (except /proc since
that's generated on the fly, I believe) included.

> One thing that I did when I created my config files: I put lots and lots
> of comments in, to tell me what each entry did, what the options were, and
> sometimes _why_ they were.  :-) Trust me, it helps immensely when I have
> to modify something.  :-) If you think it would help, I could post my
> configs.  Sometimes having a working example can be useful.

   If what I have works, both files are so short that comments may well be
superfluous. I've been a firm believer in commenting directive files since
trying to figure out what I did in a FORTRAN program (on punch cards) a few
months after writing it, and having forgotten my logic and reasoning after
not running the models for a while.

Thanks,

Rich
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