Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:00:37PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>> On 09/03 08:45 , Davide Brini wrote:
>>> I agree that it should work like that. However, if I'm not mistaken, it 
>>> seems 
>>> that what's written here still applies:
>>>
>>> http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2003-10/msg00010.html
>> I think the current behavior is the correct behavior -- where the per-host
>> config file variable data completely replaces the defaults set in the
>> config.pl.
>>
>> The reason is that there are some settings in config.pl where is it not
>> sensible to add the value in config.pl to the value in the per-host file;
>> such as the rsync command. 
> 
>> It would be bad from a discoverability standpoint to have some variables be
>> additive, and others ablative. They should all behave the same way; and the
>> only sensible way IMHO is current behavior.
> 
> But maybe the global config could be made available as $GlobalConf{xyz}
> within the per-host config? I remember having tried the same thing -
> that is, I want a set of default excludes, then extend then for one
> host. Currently, I have to repeat the whole default config just to
> append one more directory to the excludes.

Doesn't that happen by itself if you use the web interface to edit the 
per-host config?  That is, you see all of the default array elements 
from the main config file until you insert a new one and then the set 
becomes an override.  If you have enough machines that you don't want to 
use the web interface to make a change, you could use a script to make 
whatever edits you want.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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