Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

[Dave S. <Dav...@ub...>]

On 9/13/21 6:00 PM, Juergen Harms wrote:
> This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and 
> document help for users who hit this kind of problem.
Agreed.  But what kind of response is expected when you say "what makes 
it *look as if* your installation works is that...", other than "no, it 
*actually does* work"?  (Rhetorical question.)
> Trying to understand: how do you define separate and different 
> profiles ("per-host override configs") for each of your 18 different 
> PCs in one single .pl file (i.e. your file at 
> /etc/backupp/hostname.pl) ? or do you mean by hostname.pl a list of 
> specific files where hostname.pl stands for an enumeration of 18 files 
> with PC-specific names?
`ls /etc/backuppc/*.pl` lists 19 files, "config.pl" and 18 separate 
"[hostname].pl" files.

The (non-commented-out) contents of the [hostname].pl files range from 
the very brief

$Conf {RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/nice /usr/local/bin/sudo 
/usr/local/bin/rsync';

(for a BSD-based box that just has rsync in a different location than 
where debian puts it) to the slightly-more-complex

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/cygdrive/c/';
$Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/echo';
$Conf {RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', '$sshPath -p 2022'];
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -p 2022 $host 
"/backuppc/pre-cmd.cmd"';
$Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc -p 2022 $host 
"/backuppc/post-cmd.cmd"';

(used by most of the Windows hosts, although some omit the lines setting 
an alternate ssh port or disabling ping checks)

> If the latter is the case, our disagreement is very small: each of 
> these files in /etc/backuppc provides config info for one pc, and the 
> pc/ directory does not harm, but is not used (I tried both variants - 
> with and without specifyint pc/ - both work)
I'm mildly surprised by the last parenthetical there.  I had expected 
BPC to look only in /etc/backuppc/pc, with the symlink allowing admins 
to place the configs directly in /etc/backuppc (where I believe most 
debian-familiar admins would expect them to go).  I hadn't expected the 
symlink to be entirely superfluous.