Changes between Version 43 and Version 44 of FeatureRequests

Timestamp:

11/10/2009 20:13:07 (11 months ago)

Author:

chris

Comment:

minor formatting and separation of topics

FeatureRequests

@@ -170 +170 @@
 On logging in, compare a hash of the key material with a record on the server, to give a better error when you use the wrong key file.
 
-== Default Configuration File
+== Default Configuration File ==
 
 In bbackupd.conf, put _all_ possible configuration values with good describing comment (e.g. with the unit of values (seconds, bytes, ...)) (I believe this is now done by bbackupd-config -- Chris)
@@ -214 +214 @@
 
 Similarly, it'd be nice to be able to use the same long list of exclusions in multiple !BackupLocations using a variable of some sort (or maybe even reading from an external file, or, egads, maybe even downloading from a web service of some sort, like http://myserver.com/template.txt) (a variant of my 2006-12-11 Feature Request above). (bbackupd.conf doesn't need to become a programming language. Use m4/perl/python -- Chris)
+
+== Redundant Servers ==
 
 In bbackupd.conf, it might help make for easy geographic redundancy by being able to enter 2 or more !StoreHostname records, with the client either backing up to both of them each cycle, or maybe even just alternating between them if that is acceptable to the user.  (PeteJ 2007-05-16)
@@ -326 +328 @@
 I don't like the "Subdirectory" directive because it should also be  applicable to files or a list of files, but I couldn't think of another one.
 
-This is unbelievably complex and unimplementable. Box Backup doesn't need to do this. We should have an interface to an external program that can tell us whether or not to back up a particular file, and then you can implement whetever policy as you like. (Chris)
+This is unbelievably complex and unimplementable. Box Backup doesn't need to do this. We should have an interface to an external program that can tell us whether or not to back up a particular file, and then you can implement whatever policy you like. (Chris)
 
 == Configuration File/Installation Issues ==