Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 08/25 02:22 , Brad Alexander wrote:
> You could substitute "Full" for a root-level restore... So it could be

sounds reasonable.
I might suggest 'root' instead of 'full' or '/'; because a restore starting
at / is not necessarily a restore of everything. However, 'root' has its own
problems in that the word also describes a user on almost every *nix
machine.


The suggestion of not using a sharename for restores starting from the root;
perhaps could be restated as something like " '/' characters shall be
converted to '_' characters except for the leftmost one, which shall be
omitted". this would end up omitting the sharename (or path or whatever it
ends up being) if it's just '/'.

> hostname_20110824_Full.tar or hostname_20110824_etc_home.zip (assuming the
> restore is /etc and /home)...The only problem with that is the name can get
> long and tedious. Suggestions on that?


This may be a case where empirical testing serves better than theoretical
wrangling. Let's see if long filenames actually occur and cause problems;
and how drastic the solutions to them need to be.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com