Les Stott wrote:
> 
> It would be great if the BackupPC Admin interface gave the ability to 
> create a template and then when you create a new host, simply apply that 
> template.
> 
> Lets say you have 50+ pc's to backup, 20 Vista (heaven forbid! ;} )and 
> 30 XP. lets say we are using rsyncd to backup and we want just the user 
> profile directories. Ofcourse in XP thats c:\Documents and Settings, in 
> Vista its C:\Users. The Excludes and Includes would also be different 
> especially with Vista's junction points.
> 
> Now wouldn't it be great to create an XP template and a Vista template 
> via the CGI. Then when you add a host you could tick "apply a template" 
> and choose appropriately. Saves you a bit of time.
> 
> Taking it a step further......when you select a template, before it 
> applies it prompts you with a list of those changes in the template, 
> giving you the ability to override or exclude some or all of the 
> template settings.
> 
> Not sure how hard that would be to implement.
> 
> Ofcourse you could do it on command line, but if it was in the cgi 
> editior it would be fantastic!
> 
> Any thoughts?

That's pretty much already there if you use an existing host as your 
template. When you 'edit hosts' with the cgi editor, you can add  with 
the NEWHOST=COPYHOST syntax to pick up the per-pc configs from a similar 
one, then edit in any differences in the new host's 'Edit config' screens.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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