I say "it works" because (for me, at least) it. does. work.
I have per-host override files at /etc/backuppc/hostname.pl (which is
the same as /etc/backuppc/pc/hostname.pl, thanks to the symlink that you
seem to loathe so much). They work.
Hosts which do not have per-host override files in /etc/backuppc use the
settings in /etc/backuppc/config.pl. They *also* work.
As I mentioned earlier, I am backing up 89 hosts via backuppc. 71 of
them are linux hosts using the default settings from config.pl. The
other 18 are a mix of Windows, Macs, and various BSD-based appliances,
and these 18 use per-host override configs. All 89 work, with no special
handling beyond (for the 18 non-linux machines) creating the per-host
configs.
On 9/11/21 9:23 AM, Juergen Harms wrote:
On 10/09/2021 09:18, Dave Sherohman wrote:
I'm not sure why Debian decided to do the pc/ symlink thing, but it
works. Debian was doing that with the BPC 3.x packages in debian10
and it never caused any problems that I'm aware of.
I am coming back to the symlink question, I did not take it seriously
enough. According to backuppc documentation (
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPC-4.0.0.html, Config and Log
Directories) it is meant to point to a directory that contains per-pc
definitions - they serve to override definitions originally made in
config.pl but which are to be different for specific hosts.
As it is in the present Debian package, this symlink does more or less
nothing and does not at all allow to define per-pc configurationd - a
very important drawback. You say "it works" - what makes it look as if
it works is that in absence of such per-pc definitions the definition
in config.pl is used.
Juergen
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