On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:28:34PM -0500, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
> What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the
> Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName?
> 
> I have a "Self Provisioning" solution whereby a user can authenticate to a
> BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself
> for backup.  However, I have  a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines.
>  As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to
> the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific
> BackupExcludeFiles specs.  However, I can determine host OS version at the
> time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override
> the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows
> XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles.

I think all it does is creates the /etc/backuppc/pc/host.name.pl file
with the overriding config info in it.

RTFM: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file
for per-PC configuration files.

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