[BackupPC-users] host config file command line editor ?
Hi there, i'm not aware using Perl scripting, but ok with bash / php. Then, i'd like to know if there's a way to set values for per pc config file using command line tool ? By exemple, like to change only FullKeepCnt value, but, has it is by default written that way : $Conf#123;FullKeepCnt#125; = #91; nbsp; '400' #93;; It's a bit hard for me to parse this file and write back a new value. Didn't find any way of doing this on the wiki. I'd like to be able to do that kind of thing without de cgi web interface, in order for me to be able to change values through scripts. Thank you in advance for any advices :) +-- |This was sent by alexan...@inforeseau.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] host config file command line editor ?
Alex wrote:
Hi there,
i'm not aware using Perl scripting, but ok with bash / php.
Then, i'd like to know if there's a way to set values for per pc config file
using command line tool ?
By exemple, like to change only FullKeepCnt value, but, has it is by default
written that way :
$Conf#123;FullKeepCnt#125; = #91;
nbsp; '400'
#93;;
That's HTML for...
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [
'400'
];
It should not be HTML encoded on disk.
$Conf is a hash. The hash entry FullKeepCnt is a list (I think) with,
in this case, one value: 400.
It's a bit hard for me to parse this file and write back a new value.
PHP has the htmlspecialchars_decode
(http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php),
which will take the nasty looking string you started with, and transform
it to the proper on-disk setup, which should also be easier to
manipulate (I think PHP might even properly utilize Perl hashes).
Didn't find any way of doing this on the wiki. I'd like to be able to do that
kind of thing without de cgi web interface, in order for me to be able to
change values through scripts.
Thank you in advance for any advices :)
Chris
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Re: [BackupPC-users] host config file command line editor ?
Hi,
Alex wrote on 2009-01-08 10:41:35 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] host config file
command line editor ?]:
i'm not aware using Perl scripting, but ok with bash / php.
learn Perl, it's much more fun :-).
Then, i'd like to know if there's a way to set values for per pc config
file using command line tool ?
'vi host.pl' ?
By exemple, like to change only FullKeepCnt value, but, has it is by default
written that way :
$Conf#123;FullKeepCnt#125; = #91;
nbsp; '400'
#93;;
It's a bit hard for me to parse this file and write back a new value.
I can see why that would be ...
[...] I'd like to be able to do that kind of thing without de cgi web
interface, in order for me to be able to change values through scripts.
Well, I don't know of any existing tool. It much depends on what you want to
do and be able to do.
- Can you guarantee that the host.pl files will never be modified through
the web interface?
- Do you want to keep comments etc. in the host.pl files or just the settings?
- How do you suggest setting anything more complex than a simple string value
(arrays, hashes, hashes of arrays)?
- BackupPC may accept different types of values for one parameter.
BackupFilesExclude, for example, can be a string, an array of strings, or a
hash of arrays of strings. Do you want to handle all cases correctly?
Depending on your answers, you could re-format your host.pl files to put each
assignment on one line (with some tending to get rather long) and then use
'sed' to modify them, do some perl -e 'use Data::Dumper; ...'-magic (I
started a small script but dropped it when the array question came up) ... you
could probably even use BackupPC::CGI::EditConfig, though I doubt emulating a
CGI POST request and supplying all the values is what you really had in mind.
Actually, I just added another few lines to the script for handling the first
hash/array cases that spring to mind, as well as removing values. It's not
extensively tested, but since I quick-hack(tm)ed it, I might as well include
it, just in case it fits anyone's needs. I'm not going to use it myself, as
I'd like to preserve comments in my config files.
Questions as to how to use it will be answered if posted to the mailing list
directly ;-). For the beginning, try
BackupPC_editconf.pl -f /etc/backuppc/testhost.pl FullKeepCnt=399
'BackupFilesExclude{/}[0]=/sys'
Attachments can apparently not be accessed via Backup Central, which doesn't
really bother me. See the real mailing list archive instead:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1231429295.m2f.295958%40www.backupcentral.comforum_name=backuppc-users
Regards,
Holger
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Author: Holger Parplies, 09.01.09, GPL, uncommented, -*-quick-hack-*-
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Std;
$Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
my %opts = (
f = undef, # file name of config file to manipulate
);
if (not getopts ('f:', \%opts) or @ARGV == 0 or not defined $opts {f}) {
die Usage: $0 -f host.pl VAR=VALUE ...\n;
}
our %Conf = ();
do $opts {f}
or die Can't do $opts{f}: $!\n;
foreach (@ARGV) {
my ($var, $val) = m/^\s*(.*?)\s*(?:=\s*(.*?)\s*)?$/;
my $confvar;
if ($var =~ /^(.*)\{(.*)\}\[(.*)\]$/) {
defined $val ? $Conf {$1} {$2} [$3] = $val
: splice @{$Conf {$1} {$2}}, $3, 1;
} elsif ($var =~ /^(.*)\[(.*)\]$/) {
defined $val ? $Conf {$1} [$2] = $val : splice @{$Conf {$1}}, $2, 1;
} elsif ($var =~ /^(.*)\{(.*)\}$/) {
defined $val ? $Conf {$1} {$2} = $val : delete $Conf {$1} {$2};
} else {
defined $val ? $Conf {$var} = $val : delete $Conf {$var};
}
}
open CONF, $opts{f}.new
or die Can't create new configuration file $opts{f}.new: $!\n;
foreach (sort keys %Conf) {
my $val = Data::Dumper::Dumper ($Conf {$_});
chomp ($val);
print CONF \$Conf {$_} = $val;\n;
}
close CONF;
rename $opts {f}, $opts{f}.old;
rename $opts{f}.new, $opts {f};
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Re: [BackupPC-users] host config file command line editor ?
Alex wrote at about 10:41:35 -0500 on Thursday, January 8, 2009: Hi there, i'm not aware using Perl scripting, but ok with bash / php. Then, i'd like to know if there's a way to set values for per pc config file using command line tool ? I'm having a little trouble understanding your English (not ur fault) but it seems like you are looking to use bash or php to do per-host configuration. Since the config files (and BackupPC itself) are written in Perl, it would seem that Perl is the natural language to use. If you only want to set variables on a per-machine basis, you just need to copy/paste/edit the existing config file for each machine -- you don't really need to know any Perl except the most basic of variable and array assignment syntax. If you want to 'hack' the config script to run some actual perl code (and not just assign static variables) then you may need to know a little Perl code and I have posted last month some tricks you can use. By exemple, like to change only FullKeepCnt value, but, has it is by default written that way : $Conf#123;FullKeepCnt#125; = #91; nbsp; '400' #93;; It's a bit hard for me to parse this file and write back a new value. Didn't find any way of doing this on the wiki. I'd like to be able to do that kind of thing without de cgi web interface, in order for me to be able to change values through scripts. Thank you in advance for any advices :) +-- |This was sent by alexan...@inforeseau.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] host config file command line editor ?
Thank you guys for your fast answers.
Sorry for the html, as i posted it through the backupcentral forum, it modified
the config part in html, didn't expect that.
Well, i'm gonna look the given solutions to get it work.
Sorry for my confuse question.
I know about the arrays etc. The goal is for me to change settings, even if
it's a single value, or a complex array by replacing the all param in the
config file.
I already know how to get a well formed array to reproduce perl's one from bash
or php.
My first problem was erasing the specific area in the configuration file (only
the modified value).
I'm gonna try to make :
1 : remove the desired value from config file (by any of the solutions you tell
me above)
2 : add new configuration in the file (by ex in shell : echo
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = ['400']; /etc/BackupPC/pc/my_config_file.pl (just to
tell how i plan, i know i'll have to add \ before special chars.)
I think you see the way i wanna make it work.
Sorry for my bad english ;)
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