Les,

> 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.

Part of this feature is already available.  When you create a host
you can first select the "Add" button.  You then set the new host
as "NEWHOST=COPYHOST".  This creates NEWHOST and copies the config
from COPYHOST.

You could create dummy hosts for each machine type (with backups disabled)
or just use a live machine as the COPYHOST.

> 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.

This isn't implemented currently and would take quite a bit of effort.
It's probably not much faster looking through a list of which settings
you want to accept from the template, versus just looking at the
settings themselves.

Craig

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