+++ I like the feature. I too get by now with sprinkled edits in the config file as well as per host backups and links (but those need to be copied to each host or host class (when using links). Would be great to have local config that cleanly overrides general setting that I want to apply across my setup.
Paul Fox wrote at about 14:31:03 -0500 on Thursday, November 13, 2025: > 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 > =---------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 48.6 degrees) > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
