Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

[Bryan K. (.net) <bk...@ke...>]

The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows
XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7.


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Michael Stowe
<ms...@ch...>wrote:

> > What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the
> > Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName?
>
> I'm going to go with "nothing."
>
> The override check box indicates that it's a setting in the PC-specific
> configuration rather than inherited from the main configuration.
>
> > I have a "Self Provisioning" solution whereby a user can authenticate to
> a
> > BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself
> > for backup.  However, I have  a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines.
> >  As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to
> > the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific
> > BackupExcludeFiles specs.  However, I can determine host OS version at
> the
> > time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to
> override
> > the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows
> > XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles.
>
> You can probably make things easier on yourself by just making one list of
> both exclusions, since the only risk is that a user created something on
> XP that happens to be the exact same thing you want to exclude on Windows
> 7, or vice versa.
>
>
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