Martin Schröder [Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:21:02PM +0200]: > 2006/10/20, Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >The configuration parameters have to be TAB seperated (using standard > >whitespaces breaks). > > Cosmetics. :-)
Well, it's a bit problematic if you've all your editors switched to replaced tabs by $count_of_whitespaces. And I personally see no reason why to enforce using tabs on users. But yes, this maybe a design issues, if rsnapshot wants to be able to backup files beginning with a whitespace. > >Additionally rsync does not support per source pre or post execution > >of programs (for mounting, dumping databases, ...). > > You can set cmd_preexec, cmd_postexec globally or per backup. Well, I personally consider this a hack. Perhaps introducing backup /var/ dream/ exclude=/var/tmp prexec=/path/to/script postexec=/path/to/script would fit into the configuration file design better. > >For large scale backup solution you need parallel execution, which > >ccollect is capable of, but rsnapshot not. > > This should be possible with the latest rsnapshot (using sync/sync > first) and multiple incarnations of rsnapshot, but it's not in there > automatically. Same as above. I do not say it's not possible with rsnapshot, you can hack everything to fit to your needs. But I say that it is easier with ccollect. > >I didn't look into rsnapshot code for a long time, but the last > >time they used 'cp -al' for cloning, if gnu cp was available. > >This is not necessary because of rsync's --link-dest parameter. > > rsnapshot does this now. :-) Ah, nice! Btw, Frederic is currently working on a configuration utility for ccollect called ccollect-config [0]. I am highly interested on your opinion of cconfig, because there are several reason I choosed that configuration style and I would like to know whether someone shares my point of view or for which reason you would not like to use it or prefer xml, ini-style, sh-style or even rsnapshot style. Imho, automatically editing is much easier with cconfig and using the filesystem as what it was designed for, as a database, is much cleaner then some other configuration ideas (thus abstracting the database). Sincerly Nico [0]: http://0xf00.de/ccollect-config.html -- ``...if there's one thing about Linux users, they're do-ers, not whiners.'' (A quotation of Andy Patrizio I completely agree with)
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