From: Craig B. <cba...@us...> - 2006-07-23 06:28:10
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Guillaume Filion writes: > > > > I should either change it back, or: > > > > - change configure.pl to make all the host names lower case > > during upgrade, >=20 > A warning in configure.pl and an option/suggestion to convert the host=20 > names to lower case would seem like a good option. >=20 > > - make the netbios name check case insensitive (the netbios name > > is always forced to lower case, but in 3.0.0 the host name is > > not, so the comparison fails). >=20 > That wouldn't work since the old backups would be in a directory with=20 > only lower case letters (inaccessible from BackupPC) and the new=20 > backups would be taken in a directory with capital letters. I was meaning do both of the changes. > > I'm leaning towards just changing it back. Which way do you recommend= ? > > I should look through my email to see what prompted me to change it. >=20 > I'm not sure why you changed it in the first place, so I'm leaning=20 > toward changing it back too :-) but if you prefer to put a warning in=20 > configure.pl it's fine with me. I'm going to change it back. I'll add something to the docs. The only email about confusion from forced lower case is attached. Craig ---------- Forwarded message ---------- To: bac...@li... From: alain perrier <ape...@in...> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:56:16 +0100 Subj: [BackupPC-users] BUG? archive name with upper case characters Hello, I'm trying to configure an archive device. I have a LTO tape drive=20 attached to my BackupPC host. I created a host "ArchiveLTO", a directory=20 .../pc/ArchiveLTO with TransfertMethode=3D 'archive' and ... BackupPC=20 shown me this device as a PC! I discovered that it don't like my upper=20 case name so I renamed it to "archive-lto" and all works fine! --=20 Alain PERRIER ape...@in... INA - Direction de la Recherche et Exp=E9rimentation 4, Avenue de l'Europe - F-94366 Bry s/Marne Cedex http://www.ina.fr/recherche Tel : 33 (0) 1 49 83 23 86 Fax : 33 (0) 1 49 83 29 29 |