On 11/13/25 2:31 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
A couple of years ago I filed a backuppc issue on github
(https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/486) complaining that
localconfig.pl wasn't documented. It turns out that it's a Debian
addition, courtesy of their patches when packaging backuppc. I had
learned this a while ago, and I apologize to Ged for not updating the
github issue (which I confess I'd forgotten about).
Anyway, Ged just asked whether it's useful, and whether the
functionality should move into backuppc proper.
Well, at some point, when I wasn't sure whether localconfig.pl was a
feature I should be relying on, I decided to simply move all of my
local config onto the tail of config.pl. (Previously it had been
sprinkled throughout, with bits of comment here and there telling me
why I'd changed something or other.) Putting it all at the end isn't
quite as clean, management-wise, as having local changes in a separate
file, but at least it keeps the release-to-release diffs clean(er), which
is important at system upgrade time.
So I'm not going to champion the feature too hard, even though I think
it's a good idea. I have an adequate workaround. But if anyone else
uses it, and/or thinks it should become permanent in all packages, I
can't imagine it would be a lot of work for it to be implemented. And
I'd probably start using it again in that case.
paul
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paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 48.6 degrees)
Unless I'm misunderstanding this, is the localconfig.pl to
define a backup schedule for the server?
I eventually accomplished this by identifying the server as
a named host <servername.pl> in the list of hosts to backup.
It took a bit of trial and error to set it up and help from
this list many years ago. So yes it would be helpful to have
a sample script to achieve this since it is not part of the
documentation.
--
Jim KR
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