Re: [BackupPC-users] file mangling

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

> I would like to turn file mangling off in 2.0.0Beta1. How can I do that 
> (which files need to be changed)? Also, are there any serious known 
> consequences if turn mangling of.

Two:

  - The file "attrib" is created in each directory to store file
    attributes. Without file name mangling you will get collisions
    between this file and any regular file called "attrib".

  - If you are using a share name for tar or rsycn that contains "/"
    (eg: /home/craig) then without mangling everything will fail,
    since a single directory is created for each share.  With
    mangling this directory is called f%2fhome%2fcraig.

Why do you want to turn mangling off?  The CGI interface and scripts
like BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate allow easy access
to merged, correctly-named files with the correct attributes.
Even with mangling off if you try to access the backup directories
directly you don't get the correct attributes and you don't get
merged incrementals.

That said, you could change the subroutines fileNameEltMangle() and
fileNameMangle() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm, but you are on your own.

Craig