Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

[John R. <rou...@re...>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 03:14:49PM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> John Rouillard wrote:
> > Well not quite. It's getting better with $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra} for
> > example.  I don't have to copy the whole $Conf{RsyncArgs} stanza into
> > my pc/hostname.pl file.
> 
> I haven't ever touched/created a hostname.pl file -- I've done 
> everything in the GUI with "override" checked for a particular host's 
> configuration.  It creates very neat and tidy hostname.pl files for me, 

That doesn't scale well when you are running a couple of hundred hosts
across three different backup servers and you have standard backup
recipies for particular services on those hosts.

When you change the services so that new backups have to be added
(i.e. change recipies), or you move services and the configs have to
change it's a lot easier to have a single set of hostname.pl files to
distribute to all the backup servers. Doing it this way means not
going "oops you mean we didn't have an off site backup of that
filesystem?" and makes auditing on a regular basis (say weekly)
possible.

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				-- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
Renesys Corporation  603-244-9084 (cell)  603-643-9300 x 111