Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

[Brad A. <st...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <
ch...@re...> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Good point. I was thinking about a box I rebuilt this week. Before I rebuilt
it, I saved /root, /home and /etc. So my potential filename would have been
akagi_20110823_etc_home_root.tar, which would be manageable, but you could
see how it could get out of hand rather quickly...especially if you are
preserving, say, /usr/local/bin versus /usr/bin...

--b