Hi there, On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, [email protected] wrote:
... it would be nice if the function would be allow you to alternatively specify just a path without a share name similar to how directories are stored in the 'pc' directory or how they are mounted when using backuppcfs. i.e., if your share is named 'root' (for '/') then you could just do: BackupPC_backupDelete -h HOSTNAME -n 742 -s /root/etc/something ...
Do people have sharenames which contain the '/' character? See e.g. https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/22630073/. Even if they do, this could (I think) still be just about doable. Not part of this fix though, it would probably take some time to work through.
... If your only share is actually '/' then you could do: BackupPC_backupDelete -h HOSTNAME -n 742 /etc/something
If I understand and if 'something' is a directory, seems easy enough: Count the shares; if there's only one, then take the command BackupPC_backupDelete -h HOSTNAME -n 742 /etc/something to mean what would right now be given as BackupPC_backupDelete -h HOSTNAME -n 742 -s OnlyExistingShare /etc/something and proceed on that basis; otherwise call it a syntax error. What's the largest number of shares there are likely to be? One might even consider, if a path is given without a sharename, looping through all existing shares.
It may also be nice to have the option to confirm before deleting...
Noted. Then we'd have to make sure BackupPC_dump didn't use it... :) -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
