From: <ha...@gm...> - 2011-09-08 18:55:03
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Our users have a variety of storage media from ordinary flash drives and SD cards to eSata or firewire HDDs, and even some swappable "internal" HD's. Much of these data is as or sometimes even more important than those on the fixed drives. Just as the notebook users are only intermittently attached to the LAN, these various drives are only occasionally attached to the notebooks. Obviously a management challenge to set policies that will try to maximise the security of these data, but my question here is specifically to try to set up config.pl to avoid having to create and maintain customized hostname.pl's. I've tried to create an RsyncShareName = /cygwin - note NOT specifying a drive letter, the idea being that if a given user has their F drive inserted one day and their H another, BackupPC will just grab whatever's there and mounted. Downside is that we'd also be backing up data from optical media that happened to be in the DVD drive at the time, but that's a price we're willing to pay, perhaps handled with strategic exceptional excludes if it proves worth the headaches. I haven't been able to get this to work so far. I've taken the --one-filesystem out of my rsync args, tested with no excludes at all, no dice. Is there a way to accomplish this? even if it's a kludge workaround. . . Or is this a truly idiotic idea that should indeed be prevented by design? |