BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Merge config in per-host config?

2009-09-03 16:52:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Merge config in per-host config?
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:47:00 -0500
On 09/03 09:26 , Davide Brini wrote:
> push @{$Conf{RsyncArgs}}, '--checksum-seed=32761';
> push @{$Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs}}, '--checksum-seed=32761';
> 
> in the per-host config file only for the hosts that can support that. The 
> alternative would be to include the full $Conf{RsyncArgs} with checksum 
> caching appended at the end in each per-host config file. 

Personally, when administrating a machine I try to avoid being too clever
with my configurations. One needs to consider that another administrator may
come along and have little or no clue how things are set up with all the
levels of indirection and dependency. As such, I often take some extra
effort to explicitly spell out what all the settings are such that the
behavior may be readily discovered.

That said, I also realize that I don't know what's best for everyone else,
and it's good to have labor-saving flexibility and configurability. So long
as the default behavior remains; it seems like a reasonable patch. 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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