Craig Barratt 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.
> 
> 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.

One thing that might not be too hard would be to add an assortment of 
typical host configurations that could be used as templates.  If the 
routine that copies an existing host config doesn't care if the name 
exists in the hosts file, that might just work as-is.  If these had 
names that were descriptive for the xfer method and unlikely as real 
hostnames they would work as templates and probably save some time 
getting started with mixed targets.  The only thing I'd be concerned 
about would be having a default share setting that users might 
incorrectly assume to be right for them.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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