From: Craig B. <cba...@us...> - 2004-08-05 07:20:45
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Daniel Pittman writes: > On 5 Aug 2004, Michael Pellegrino wrote: > >> On 5 Aug 2004, st...@36... wrote: > >>> Quoting Daniel Pittman > >>>> On 4 Aug 2004, Steve wrote: > >> > >>> I must be blind (I am partially sighted :) ) not to have seen that > >>> right at the top. Note to self, must change the default 'commented > >>> out' text colour from light grey to something a bit more prominent. > >> > >> Also, it is worth noting that files named > >> '/etc/backuppc/<host>.pl' work > >> for this, and they are what I prefer to use. :) > > > > Okay, I'm the blind one. I never saw that nice little tidbit anywhere. Is > > this officially supported? Also, I don't have /etc/backuppc. Is it > > __TOPDIR__/<host>.pl, __TOPDIR__/conf/<host>.pl, or something? > > ...hmm. This could be a Debian-specific patch, then, though I thought I > saw a reference to it in the documentation somewhere. > > A quick check fails to turn up the location, though - sorry. It's an undocumented feature. BackupPC merges the following three config files in order: __TOPDIR__/conf/config.pl __TOPDIR__/conf/HOST.pl __TOPDIR__/pc/HOST/config.pl Settings in later files override the earlier files. So the per-PC host file can go either in __TOPDIR__/conf/HOST.pl (undocumented) or __TOPDIR__/pc/HOST/config.pl (offical documented location). Daniel, I assume you have a symlink from __TOPDIR__/conf to /etc/backuppc. That said, now that I am implementing a CGI config editor, it is difficult to have the per-PC config file in two places. Where do you write the config file? So the config editor might not support the undocumented __TOPDIR__/conf/HOST.pl location. Craig |