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Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request
2011-08-26 07:02:44
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
The suggestion of not using a sharename for restores starting from the root;
perhaps could be restated as something like " '/' characters shall be
converted to '_' characters except for the leftmost one, which shall be
omitted". this would end up omitting the sharename (or path or whatever it
ends up being) if it's just '/'.
> hostname_20110824_Full.tar or hostname_20110824_etc_home.zip (assuming the
> restore is /etc and /home)...The only problem with that is the name can get
> long and tedious. Suggestions on that?
This may be a case where empirical testing serves better than theoretical
wrangling. Let's see if long filenames actually occur and cause problems;
and how drastic the solutions to them need to be.
Good point. I was thinking about a box I rebuilt this week. Before I rebuilt it, I saved /root, /home and /etc. So my potential filename would have been akagi_20110823_etc_home_root.tar, which would be manageable, but you could see how it could get out of hand rather quickly...especially if you are preserving, say, /usr/local/bin versus /usr/bin...
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