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

Thanks Les for you input.

I'm aware of the NEW=OLD feature, that is nice.

I did get things working the way I want. My "self provisioning" is a matter of my end users going to http://BackupPC, click on a Provisioning link, and they're prompted for authentication (against our LDAP directory)

if successful, a back end process with add the workstation they're logging in from to the /etc/BackupPC/hosts file; and now, if they are on an Windows XP machine, we create a /etc/BackupPC/pc/computername.pl file with this content:

$Conf{SmbShareName} = [
'c$'
];

and now they have the "XP" BackupFilesExclude configuration.

This takes me out of having to manage initial configurations, and end users can "opt in" without my involvement.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) <bkeadle AT keadle DOT net> wrote:
> 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.

Not sure what you meant by provisioning, but maybe you can use an
existing config as a template. For example if you are adding hosts
in the web interface you can specify NEW=OLD in the host field and it
will add the NEW host with a copy of all of the host-specific settings
from the existing OLD host.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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