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Re: [BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl

2009-06-11 13:25:13
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl
From: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:20:34 +0200
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> Matthias Meyer wrote at about 18:00:22 +0200 on Thursday, June 11, 2009:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > Unfortunately I am not a perl programmer.
>  > Therefore my, maybee stupid, question ;-)
>  > 
>  > Is it possible to include a specification within the
>  > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}?
>  > 
>  > Something like:
>  > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>  >   'WINDOWS' => [
>  >     '/Downloaded Program Files',
>  >     '/Offline Web Pages',
>  >     '/Temp',
>  >     '/proc',
>  >     '/System32/LogFiles/WMI/RtBackup'
>  >   ],
>  >   '*' => [
>  >     'pagefile.sys',
>  >     'hiberfil.sys',
>  >     '/System Volume Information',
>  >     '/RECYCLER',
>  >     '/$Recycle.Bin',
>  >     '/$RECYCLE.BIN',
>  >     '/MSOCache',
>  >     '/proc',
>  >     '/Windows',
>  > #include VistaJunctions_english
>  > #include VistaJunctions_german
>  >   ]
>  > };
>  >   
> 
> Well, it's not C so you wouldn't expect to be able to use C
> syntax. But the config.pl is an executable perl file so you can use
> standard perl techniques to read in the contents of a variable in
> another file (for example using the 'do' construction) and then use
> standard perl hash & array constructions to merge the values from the
> file you read in with the values you specify in the config file. Just
> check out some of the perl tutorials online -- if you are messing with
> perl code, I highly recommend you learn a little perl.
> 

Thanks Jeffrey,

I hoped the necessary code would be simple enough and somebody would be so
nice to post it here.
Thanks anyway
br
Matthias
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