Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Chunking (was: New user, few questions)

2006-02-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/13 07:34 , Craig Barratt wrote: Putting perl code in the config file has some drawbacks. First, it won't work with the new config editor (but that's not released yet). Second, any code that takes time to execute (eg: contacting a client to list its modules) will make the CGI script run

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Chunking (was: New user, few questions)

2006-02-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:29, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: Putting perl code in the config file has some drawbacks. First, it won't work with the new config editor (but that's not released yet). Second, any code that takes time to execute (eg: contacting a client to list its modules)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Chunking (was: New user, few questions)

2006-02-14 Thread Bernardo . Rechea
Les Mikesell wrote: thank God you're sensible about this, Craig. Entirely too many perl mongers have the idea that just because one can put perl script into a config file, that it should be done. (Witness the abominable config files for LogWatch). I have to disagree on this one, although

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Chunking (was: New user, few questions)

2006-02-13 Thread Craig Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you can see, this is going pretty slow on my side, but I'll keep making progress from time to time. I tried to do the easiest thing first, i.e., switching to using rsyncd, instead of rsync, and hardcoding the rsyncd modules in the config file for a particular