# you might have only one or two wakeups each night. This will keep
# the backup activity after hours. On the other hand, if you are backing
# up laptops that are only intermittently connected to the network you
-# will want to have frequent wakeups (eg: hourly) to maximized the chance
+# will want to have frequent wakeups (eg: hourly) to maximize the chance
# that each laptop is backed up.
#
# Examples:
#
# The default value is every hour except midnight.
#
+# The first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is when BackupPC_nightly
+# is run. No other backups can run while BackupPC_nightly is
+# running. You might want to re-arrange the entries in
+# $Conf{WakeupSchedule} (they don't have to be ascending) so that
+# the first entry is when you want BackupPC_nightly to run
+# (eg: when you don't expect a lot of regular backups to run).
+#
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1..23];
#
#
$Conf{MaxPendingCmds} = 10;
+#
+# How many BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel.
+#
+# Each night, at the first wakeup listed in $Conf{WakeupSchedule},
+# BackupPC_nightly is run. Its job is to remove unneeded files
+# in the pool, ie: files that only have one link. To avoid race
+# conditions, BackupPC_nightly runs only when there are no backups
+# running, and no backups will start while it runs.
+#
+# So to reduce the elapsed time, you might want to increase this
+# setting to run several BackupPC_nightly processes in parallel
+# (eg: 4, or even 8).
+#
+$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 2;
+
+#
+# How many days (runs) it takes BackupPC_nightly to traverse the
+# entire pool. Normally this is 1, which means every night it runs,
+# it does traverse the entire pool removing unused pool files.
+#
+# Other valid values are 2, 4, 8, 16. This causes BackupPC_nightly to
+# traverse 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16th of the pool each night, meaning it
+# takes 2, 4, 8 or 16 days to completely traverse the pool. The
+# advantage is that each night the running time of BackupPC_nightly
+# is reduced roughly in proportion, since the total job is split
+# over multiple days. The disadvantage is that unused pool files
+# take longer to get deleted, which will slightly increase disk
+# usage.
+#
+# Note that even when $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} > 1, BackupPC_nightly
+# still runs every night. It just does less work each time it runs.
+#
+# Examples:
+#
+# $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1; # entire pool is checked every night
+#
+# $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 2; # two days to complete pool check
+# # (different half each night)
+#
+# $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 4; # four days to complete pool check
+# # (different quarter each night)
+#
+$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1;
+
#
# Maximum number of log files we keep around in log directory.
# These files are aged nightly. A setting of 14 means the log
# Full path to the df command. Security caution: normal users
# should not allowed to write to this file or directory.
#
-$Conf{DfPath} = '/bin/df';
+$Conf{DfPath} = '';
#
-# Command to run df. Several variables are substituted at run-time:
+# Command to run df. The following variables are substituted at run-time:
#
# $dfPath path to df ($Conf{DfPath})
# $topDir top-level BackupPC data directory
#
$Conf{DfCmd} = '$dfPath $topDir';
+#
+# Full path to various commands for archiving
+#
+$Conf{SplitPath} = '';
+$Conf{ParPath} = '';
+$Conf{CatPath} = '';
+$Conf{GzipPath} = '';
+$Conf{Bzip2Path} = '';
+
#
# Maximum threshold for disk utilization on the __TOPDIR__ filesystem.
# If the output from $Conf{DfPath} reports a percentage larger than
#
# List of DHCP address ranges we search looking for PCs to backup.
# This is an array of hashes for each class C address range.
+# This is only needed if hosts in the conf/hosts file have the
+# dhcp flag set.
#
# Examples:
# # to specify 192.10.10.20 to 192.10.10.250 as the DHCP address pool
$Conf{DHCPAddressRanges} = [];
#
-# These configuration settings aren't used by BackupPC, but simply
-# remember a few settings used by configure.pl during installation.
-# These are used by configure.pl when upgrading to new versions of
-# BackupPC.
+# The BackupPC user.
#
$Conf{BackupPCUser} = '';
-$Conf{CgiDir} = '';
-$Conf{InstallDir} = '';
+
+#
+# Important installation directories:
+#
+# TopDir - where all the backup data is stored
+# ConfDir - where the main config and hosts files resides
+# LogDir - where log files and other transient information
+# InstallDir - where the bin, lib and doc installation dirs reside.
+# Note: you cannot change this value since all the
+# perl scripts include this path. You must reinstall
+# with configure.pl to change InstallDir.
+# CgiDir - Apache CGI directory for BackupPC_Admin
+#
+$Conf{TopDir} = '';
+$Conf{ConfDir} = '';
+$Conf{LogDir} = '';
+$Conf{InstallDir} = '';
+$Conf{CgiDir} = '';
#
# Whether BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin verify that they
#
$Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} = 1;
-###########################################################################
-# What to backup and when to do it
-# (can be overridden in the per-PC config.pl)
-###########################################################################
-#
-# Name of the host share that is backed up when using SMB. This can be a
-# string or an array of strings if there are multiple shares per host.
-# Examples:
-#
-# $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'c'; # backup 'c' share
-# $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['c', 'd']; # backup 'c' and 'd' shares
-#
-# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
-#
-$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'C$';
-
#
-# Smbclient share user name. This is passed to smbclient's -U argument.
-#
-# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+# Maximum number of hardlinks supported by the $TopDir file system
+# that BackupPC uses. Most linux or unix file systems should support
+# at least 32000 hardlinks per file, or 64000 in other cases. If a pool
+# file already has this number of hardlinks, a new pool file is created
+# so that new hardlinks can be accommodated. This limit will only
+# be hit if an identical file appears at least this number of times
+# across all the backups.
#
-$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = '';
+$Conf{HardLinkMax} = 31999;
#
-# Smbclient share password. This is passed to smbclient via the PASSWD
-# environment variable. There are several ways you can tell BackupPC
-# the smb share password. In each case you should be very careful about
-# security. If you put the password here, make sure that this file is
-# not readable by regular users! See the "Setting up config.pl" section
-# in the documentation for more information.
-#
-# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+# Advanced option for asking BackupPC to load additional perl modules.
+# Can be a list (array ref) of module names to load at startup.
#
-$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = '';
+$Conf{PerlModuleLoad} = undef;
#
-# Which host directories to backup when using tar transport. This can be a
-# string or an array of strings if there are multiple directories to
-# backup per host. Examples:
-#
-# $Conf{TarShareName} = '/'; # backup everything
-# $Conf{TarShareName} = '/home'; # only backup /home
-# $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/home', '/src']; # backup /home and /src
+# Path to init.d script and command to use that script to start the
+# server from the CGI interface. The following variables are substituted
+# at run-time:
#
-# The fact this parameter is called 'TarShareName' is for historical
-# consistency with the Smb transport options. You can use any valid
-# directory on the client: there is no need for it to correspond to
-# any Smb share or device mount point.
+# $sshPath path to ssh ($Conf{SshPath})
+# $serverHost same as $Conf{ServerHost}
+# $serverInitdPath path to init.d script ($Conf{ServerInitdPath})
#
-# Note also that you can also use $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} to specify
-# a specific list of directories to backup. It's more efficient to
-# use this option instead of $Conf{TarShareName} since a new tar is
-# run for each entry in $Conf{TarShareName}.
+# Example:
#
-# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
+# $Conf{ServerInitdPath} = '/etc/init.d/backuppc';
+# $Conf{ServerInitdStartCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $serverHost'
+# . ' $serverInitdPath start'
+# . ' < /dev/null >& /dev/null';
#
-$Conf{TarShareName} = '/';
+$Conf{ServerInitdPath} = '';
+$Conf{ServerInitdStartCmd} = '';
+
+###########################################################################
+# What to backup and when to do it
+# (can be overridden in the per-PC config.pl)
+###########################################################################
#
# Minimum period in days between full backups. A full dump will only be
# done if at least this much time has elapsed since the last full dump,
# extra old backups will be removed.
#
# If filling of incremental dumps is off the oldest backup always
-# has to be a full (ie: filled) dump. This might mean an extra full
-# dump is kept until the second oldest (incremental) dump expires.
+# has to be a full (ie: filled) dump. This might mean one or two
+# extra full dumps are kept until the oldest incremental backups expire.
+#
+# Exponential backup expiry is also supported. This allows you to specify:
+#
+# - num fulls to keep at intervals of 1 * $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
+# - num fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
+# - num fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
+# - num fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
+# - num fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
+#
+# and so on. This works by deleting every other full as each expiry
+# boundary is crossed.
+#
+# Exponential expiry is specified using an array for $Conf{FullKeepCnt}:
+#
+# $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [4, 2, 3];
+#
+# Entry #n specifies how many fulls to keep at an interval of
+# 2^n * $Conf{FullPeriod} (ie: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ...).
+#
+# The example above specifies keeping 4 of the most recent full backups
+# (1 week interval) two full backups at 2 week intervals, and 3 full
+# backups at 4 week intervals, eg:
+#
+# full 0 19 weeks old \
+# full 1 15 weeks old >--- 3 backups at 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 2 11 weeks old /
+# full 3 7 weeks old \____ 2 backups at 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 4 5 weeks old /
+# full 5 3 weeks old \
+# full 6 2 weeks old \___ 4 backups at 1 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 7 1 week old /
+# full 8 current /
+#
+# On a given week the spacing might be less than shown as each backup
+# ages through each expiry period. For example, one week later, a
+# new full is completed and the oldest is deleted, giving:
+#
+# full 0 16 weeks old \
+# full 1 12 weeks old >--- 3 backups at 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 2 8 weeks old /
+# full 3 6 weeks old \____ 2 backups at 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 4 4 weeks old /
+# full 5 3 weeks old \
+# full 6 2 weeks old \___ 4 backups at 1 * $Conf{FullPeriod}
+# full 7 1 week old /
+# full 8 current /
+#
+# You can specify 0 as a count (except in the first entry), and the
+# array can be as long as you wish. For example:
+#
+# $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [4, 0, 4, 0, 0, 2];
+#
+# This will keep 10 full dumps, 4 most recent at 1 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
+# followed by 4 at an interval of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod} (approx 1 month
+# apart), and then 2 at an interval of 32 * $Conf{FullPeriod} (approx
+# 7-8 months apart).
+#
+# Example: these two settings are equivalent and both keep just
+# the four most recent full dumps:
+#
+# $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 4;
+# $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [4];
#
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
# we keep at least $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} full backups no matter how old
# they are.
#
+# Note that $Conf{FullAgeMax} will be increased to $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
+# times $Conf{FullPeriod} if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} specifies enough
+# full backups to exceed $Conf{FullAgeMax}.
+#
$Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
-$Conf{FullAgeMax} = 60;
+$Conf{FullAgeMax} = 90;
#
# Number of incremental backups to keep. Must be >= 1.
$Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
$Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 30;
+#
+# Level of each incremental. "Level" follows the terminology
+# of dump(1). A full backup has level 0. A new incremental
+# of level N will backup all files that have changed since
+# the most recent backup of a lower level.
+#
+# The entries of $Conf{IncrLevels} apply in order to each
+# incremental after each full backup. It wraps around until
+# the next full backup. For example, these two settings
+# have the same effect:
+#
+# $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3];
+# $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3];
+#
+# This means the 1st and 4th incrementals (level 1) go all
+# the way back to the full. The 2nd and 3rd (and 5th and
+# 6th) backups just go back to the immediate preceeding
+# incremental.
+#
+# Specifying a sequence of multi-level incrementals will
+# usually mean more than $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} incrementals will
+# need to be kept, since lower level incrementals are needed
+# to merge a complete view of a backup. For example, with
+#
+# $Conf{FullPeriod} = 7;
+# $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 1;
+# $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6;
+# $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
+#
+# there will be up to 11 incrementals in this case:
+#
+# backup #0 (full, level 0, oldest)
+# backup #1 (incr, level 1)
+# backup #2 (incr, level 2)
+# backup #3 (incr, level 3)
+# backup #4 (incr, level 4)
+# backup #5 (incr, level 5)
+# backup #6 (incr, level 6)
+# backup #7 (full, level 0)
+# backup #8 (incr, level 1)
+# backup #9 (incr, level 2)
+# backup #10 (incr, level 3)
+# backup #11 (incr, level 4)
+# backup #12 (incr, level 5, newest)
+#
+# Backup #1 (the oldest level 1 incremental) can't be deleted
+# since backups 2..6 depend on it. Those 6 incrementals can't
+# all be deleted since that would only leave 5 (#8..12).
+# When the next incremental happens (level 6), the complete
+# set of 6 older incrementals (#1..6) will be deleted, since
+# that maintains the required number ($Conf{IncrKeepCnt})
+# of incrementals. This situation is reduced if you set
+# shorter chains of multi-level incrementals, eg:
+#
+# $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3];
+#
+# would only have up to 2 extra incremenals before all 3
+# are deleted.
+#
+# BackupPC as usual merges the full and the sequence
+# of incrementals together so each incremental can be
+# browsed and restored as though it is a complete backup.
+# If you specify a long chain of incrementals then more
+# backups need to be merged when browsing, restoring,
+# or getting the starting point for rsync backups.
+# In the example above (levels 1..6), browing backup
+# #6 requires 7 different backups (#0..6) to be merged.
+#
+# Because of this merging and the additional incrementals
+# that need to be kept, it is recommended that some
+# level 1 incrementals be included in $Conf{IncrLevels}.
+#
+# Prior to version 3.0 incrementals were always level 1,
+# meaning each incremental backed up all the files that
+# changed since the last full.
+#
+$Conf{IncrLevels} = [1];
+
+#
+# Disable all full and incremental backups. These settings are
+# useful for a client that is no longer being backed up
+# (eg: a retired machine), but you wish to keep the last
+# backups available for browsing or restoring to other machines.
+#
+# There are three values for $Conf{BackupsDisable}:
+#
+# 0 Backups are enabled.
+#
+# 1 Don't do any regular backups on this client. Manually
+# requested backups (via the CGI interface) will still occur.
+#
+# 2 Don't do any backups on this client. Manually requested
+# backups (via the CGI interface) will be ignored.
+#
+# In versions prior to 3.0 Backups were disabled by setting
+# $Conf{FullPeriod} to -1 or -2.
+#
+$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
+
+#
+# A failed full backup is saved as a partial backup. The rsync
+# XferMethod can take advantage of the partial full when the next
+# backup is run. This parameter sets the age of the partial full
+# in days: if the partial backup is older than this number of
+# days, then rsync will ignore (not use) the partial full when
+# the next backup is run. If you set this to a negative value
+# then no partials will be saved. If you set this to 0, partials
+# will be saved, but will not be used by the next backup.
+#
+# The default setting of 3 days means that a partial older than
+# 3 days is ignored when the next full backup is done.
+#
+$Conf{PartialAgeMax} = 3;
+
#
# Whether incremental backups are filled. "Filling" means that the
# most recent full (or filled) dump is merged into the new incremental
#
$Conf{RestoreInfoKeepCnt} = 10;
+#
+# Number of archive logs to keep. BackupPC remembers information
+# about each archive request. This number per archive client will
+# be kept around before the oldest ones are pruned.
+#
+$Conf{ArchiveInfoKeepCnt} = 10;
+
#
# List of directories or files to backup. If this is defined, only these
# directories or files will be backed up.
# to give a list of directories or files to backup for each share
# (the share name is the key). If this is set to just a string or
# array, and $Conf{SmbShareName} contains multiple share names, then
-# the setting is assumed to apply to only the first share name.
+# the setting is assumed to apply all shares.
+#
+# If a hash is used, a special key "*" means it applies to all
+# shares.
#
# Examples:
# $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/myFiles';
# $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
# 'c' => ['/myFiles', '/important'], # these are for 'c' share
# 'd' => ['/moreFiles', '/archive'], # these are for 'd' share
-# }
+# };
+# $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
+# 'c' => ['/myFiles', '/important'], # these are for 'c' share
+# '*' => ['/myFiles', '/important'], # these are other shares
+# };
#
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = undef;
# to give a list of directories or files to exclude for each share
# (the share name is the key). If this is set to just a string or
# array, and $Conf{SmbShareName} contains multiple share names, then
-# the setting is assumed to apply to only the first share name.
+# the setting is assumed to apply to all shares.
#
# The exact behavior is determined by the underlying transport program,
# smbclient or tar. For smbclient the exlclude file list is passed into
# For tar, if the exclude file contains a "/" it is assumed to be anchored
# at the start of the string. Since all the tar paths start with "./",
# BackupPC prepends a "." if the exclude file starts with a "/". Note
-# that GNU tar version >= 1.3.7 is required for the exclude option to
-# work correctly. For linux or unix machines it is recommended to add
-# "/proc" to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
+# that GNU tar version >= 1.13.7 is required for the exclude option to
+# work correctly. For linux or unix machines you should add
+# "/proc" to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} unless you have specified
+# --one-file-system in $Conf{TarClientCmd} or --one-file-system in
+# $Conf{RsyncArgs}. Also, for tar, do not use a trailing "/" in
+# the directory name: a trailing "/" causes the name to not match
+# and the directory will not be excluded.
+#
+# Users report that for smbclient you should specify a directory
+# followed by "/*", eg: "/proc/*", instead of just "/proc".
+#
+# If a hash is used, a special key "*" means it applies to all
+# shares.
#
# Examples:
# $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/temp';
# $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
# 'c' => ['/temp', '/winnt/tmp'], # these are for 'c' share
# 'd' => ['/junk', '/dont_back_this_up'], # these are for 'd' share
-# }
+# };
+# $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
+# 'c' => ['/temp', '/winnt/tmp'], # these are for 'c' share
+# '*' => ['/junk', '/dont_back_this_up'], # these are for other shares
+# };
#
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = undef;
# each PC a count of consecutive good pings is maintained. Once a PC has
# at least $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} consecutive good pings it is subject
# to "blackout" and not backed up during hours and days specified by
-# $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}, $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin} and
-# $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}.
+# $Conf{BlackoutPeriods}.
#
# To allow for periodic rebooting of a PC or other brief periods when a
# PC is not on the network, a number of consecutive bad pings is allowed
$Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 7;
#
-# The default settings specify the blackout period from 7:00am to
-# 7:30pm local time on Mon-Fri. For $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays},
-# 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday etc.
+# One or more blackout periods can be specified. If a client is
+# subject to blackout then no regular (non-manual) backups will
+# be started during any of these periods. hourBegin and hourEnd
+# specify hours fro midnight and weekDays is a list of days of
+# the week where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday etc.
+#
+# For example:
#
-$Conf{BlackoutHourBegin} = 7.0;
-$Conf{BlackoutHourEnd} = 19.5;
-$Conf{BlackoutWeekDays} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
+# $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
+# {
+# hourBegin => 7.0,
+# hourEnd => 19.5,
+# weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+# },
+# ];
+#
+# specifies one blackout period from 7:00am to 7:30pm local time
+# on Mon-Fri.
+#
+# The blackout period can also span midnight by setting
+# hourBegin > hourEnd, eg:
+#
+# $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
+# {
+# hourBegin => 7.0,
+# hourEnd => 19.5,
+# weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+# },
+# {
+# hourBegin => 23,
+# hourEnd => 5,
+# weekDays => [5, 6],
+# },
+# ];
+#
+# This specifies one blackout period from 7:00am to 7:30pm local time
+# on Mon-Fri, and a second period from 11pm to 5am on Friday and
+# Saturday night.
+#
+$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
+ {
+ hourBegin => 7.0,
+ hourEnd => 19.5,
+ weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+ },
+];
+
+#
+# A backup of a share that has zero files is considered fatal. This is
+# used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that result in no files being
+# backed up. If you have shares that might be empty (and therefore an
+# empty backup is valid) you should set this flag to 0.
+#
+$Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} = 1;
###########################################################################
-# General per-PC configuration settings
+# How to backup a client
# (can be overridden in the per-PC config.pl)
###########################################################################
#
#
# The valid values are:
#
-# - 'smb': backup and restore via smbclient and the SMB protocol.
-# Best choice for WinXX.
+# - 'smb': backup and restore via smbclient and the SMB protocol.
+# Easiest choice for WinXX.
#
-# - 'rsync': backup and restore via rsync (via rsh or ssh).
-# Best choice for linux/unix. Can also work on WinXX.
+# - 'rsync': backup and restore via rsync (via rsh or ssh).
+# Best choice for linux/unix. Good choice also for WinXX.
#
-# - 'rsyncd': backup and restre via rsync daemon on the client.
-# Best choice for linux/unix if you have rsyncd running on
-# the client. Can also work on WinXX.
+# - 'rsyncd': backup and restore via rsync daemon on the client.
+# Best choice for linux/unix if you have rsyncd running on
+# the client. Good choice also for WinXX.
#
# - 'tar': backup and restore via tar, tar over ssh, rsh or nfs.
# Good choice for linux/unix.
#
-# A future version should support 'rsync' as a transport method for
-# more efficient backup of linux/unix machines (and perhaps WinXX??).
+# - 'archive': host is a special archive host. Backups are not done.
+# An archive host is used to archive other host's backups
+# to permanent media, such as tape, CDR or DVD.
+#
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
+#
+# Level of verbosity in Xfer log files. 0 means be quiet, 1 will give
+# will give one line per file, 2 will also show skipped files on
+# incrementals, higher values give more output.
+#
+$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 1;
+
+#
+# Filename charset encoding on the client. BackupPC uses utf8
+# on the server for filename encoding. If this is empty, then
+# utf8 is assumed and client filenames will not be modified.
+# If set to a different encoding then filenames will converted
+# to/from utf8 automatically during backup and restore.
+#
+# If the file names displayed in the browser (eg: accents or special
+# characters) don't look right then it is likely you haven't set
+# $Conf{ClientCharset} correctly.
+#
+# If you are using smbclient on a WinXX machine, smbclient will convert
+# to the "unix charset" setting in smb.conf. The default is utf8,
+# in which case leave $Conf{ClientCharset} empty since smbclient does
+# the right conversion.
+#
+# If you are using rsync on a WinXX machine then it does no conversion.
+# A typical WinXX encoding for latin1/western europe is 'cp1252',
+# so in this case set $Conf{ClientCharset} to 'cp1252'.
+#
+# On a linux or unix client, run "locale charmap" to see the client's
+# charset. Set $Conf{ClientCharset} to this value. A typical value
+# for english/US is 'ISO-8859-1'.
+#
+# Do "perldoc Encode::Supported" to see the list of possible charset
+# values. The FAQ at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
+# is excellent, and http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
+# provides more information on the iso-8859 charsets.
+#
+$Conf{ClientCharset} = '';
+
+#
+# Name of the host share that is backed up when using SMB. This can be a
+# string or an array of strings if there are multiple shares per host.
+# Examples:
+#
+# $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'c'; # backup 'c' share
+# $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['c', 'd']; # backup 'c' and 'd' shares
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+#
+$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'C$';
+
+#
+# Smbclient share user name. This is passed to smbclient's -U argument.
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+#
+$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = '';
+
+#
+# Smbclient share password. This is passed to smbclient via its PASSWD
+# environment variable. There are several ways you can tell BackupPC
+# the smb share password. In each case you should be very careful about
+# security. If you put the password here, make sure that this file is
+# not readable by regular users! See the "Setting up config.pl" section
+# in the documentation for more information.
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+#
+$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = '';
+
#
# Full path for smbclient. Security caution: normal users should not
# allowed to write to this file or directory.
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
#
-$Conf{SmbClientPath} = '/usr/bin/smbclient';
+$Conf{SmbClientPath} = '';
#
-# Commands to run smbclient for a full dump, incremental dump or a restore.
+# Command to run smbclient for a full dump.
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
#
-# Several variables are substituted at run-time:
+# The following variables are substituted at run-time:
#
# $smbClientPath same as $Conf{SmbClientPath}
# $host host to backup/restore
# $timeStampFile start time for incremental dump
#
$Conf{SmbClientFullCmd} = '$smbClientPath \\\\$host\\$shareName'
- . '$I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
+ . ' $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
. ' -c tarmode\\ full -Tc$X_option - $fileList';
+#
+# Command to run smbclient for an incremental dump.
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+#
+# Same variable substitutions are applied as $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}.
+#
$Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} = '$smbClientPath \\\\$host\\$shareName'
- . '$I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
+ . ' $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
. ' -c tarmode\\ full -TcN$X_option $timeStampFile - $fileList';
+#
+# Command to run smbclient for a restore.
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb'.
+#
+# Same variable substitutions are applied as $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}.
+#
+# If your smb share is read-only then direct restores will fail.
+# You should set $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd} to undef and the
+# corresponding CGI restore option will be removed.
+#
$Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd} = '$smbClientPath \\\\$host\\$shareName'
- . '$I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
+ . ' $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1'
. ' -c tarmode\\ full -Tx -';
+#
+# Which host directories to backup when using tar transport. This can be a
+# string or an array of strings if there are multiple directories to
+# backup per host. Examples:
+#
+# $Conf{TarShareName} = '/'; # backup everything
+# $Conf{TarShareName} = '/home'; # only backup /home
+# $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/home', '/src']; # backup /home and /src
+#
+# The fact this parameter is called 'TarShareName' is for historical
+# consistency with the Smb transport options. You can use any valid
+# directory on the client: there is no need for it to correspond to
+# any Smb share or device mount point.
+#
+# Note also that you can also use $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} to specify
+# a specific list of directories to backup. It's more efficient to
+# use this option instead of $Conf{TarShareName} since a new tar is
+# run for each entry in $Conf{TarShareName}.
+#
+# On the other hand, if you add --one-file-system to $Conf{TarClientCmd}
+# you can backup each file system separately, which makes restoring one
+# bad file system easier. In this case you would list all of the mount
+# points here, since you can't get the same result with
+# $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}:
+#
+# $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/', '/var', '/data', '/boot'];
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
+#
+$Conf{TarShareName} = '/';
+
#
# Full command to run tar on the client. GNU tar is required. You will
# need to fill in the correct paths for ssh2 on the local host (server)
# are sufficient to read all the files you want to backup. Also, you
# will probably want to add "/proc" to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
#
-# Several variables are substituted at run-time. The following variables
-# are substituted at run-time:
+# The following variables are substituted at run-time:
#
# $host host name
# $hostIP host's IP address
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
#
-$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -n -l root $host'
- . ' $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+'
+$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -n -l root $host'
+ . ' env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+'
. ' --totals';
#
# Extra tar arguments for full backups. Several variables are substituted at
# run-time. See $Conf{TarClientCmd} for the list of variable substitutions.
#
+# If you are running tar locally (ie: without rsh or ssh) then remove the
+# "+" so that the argument is no longer shell escaped.
+#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
#
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList+';
# attribute change, meaning the file will always be included
# in each new incremental dump.
#
+# If you are running tar locally (ie: without rsh or ssh) then remove the
+# "+" so that the argument is no longer shell escaped.
+#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
#
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate+ $fileList+';
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = "tar".
#
-$Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -l root $host'
- . ' $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner'
+# If you want to disable direct restores using tar, you should set
+# $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} to undef and the corresponding CGI
+# restore option will be removed.
+#
+$Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host'
+ . ' env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner'
. ' -v -f - -C $shareName+';
#
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'.
#
-$Conf{TarClientPath} = '/bin/tar';
+$Conf{TarClientPath} = '';
#
# Path to rsync executable on the client
#
-$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/bin/rsync';
+$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '';
#
# Full command to run rsync on the client machine. The following variables
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'.
#
-$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList';
+$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
#
# Full command to run rsync for restore on the client. The following
#
# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'.
#
-$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList';
+$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
#
# Share name to backup. For $Conf{XferMethod} = "rsync" this should
-# be a directory name, eg '/' or '/home'. For $Conf{XferMethod} = "rsyncd"
-# this should be the name of the module to backup (ie: the name from
-# /etc/rsynd.conf).
+# be a file system path, eg '/' or '/home'.
+#
+# For $Conf{XferMethod} = "rsyncd" this should be the name of the module
+# to backup (ie: the name from /etc/rsynd.conf).
+#
+# This can also be a list of multiple file system paths or modules.
+# For example, by adding --one-file-system to $Conf{RsyncArgs} you
+# can backup each file system separately, which makes restoring one
+# bad file system easier. In this case you would list all of the mount
+# points:
+#
+# $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/', '/var', '/data', '/boot'];
#
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
#
$Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} = 1;
+#
+# When rsync checksum caching is enabled (by adding the
+# --checksum-seed=32761 option to $Conf{RsyncArgs}), the cached
+# checksums can be occasionally verified to make sure the file
+# contents matches the cached checksums. This is to avoid the
+# risk that disk problems might cause the pool file contents to
+# get corrupted, but the cached checksums would make BackupPC
+# think that the file still matches the client.
+#
+# This setting is the probability (0 means never and 1 means always)
+# that a file will be rechecked. Setting it to 0 means the checksums
+# will not be rechecked (unless there is a phase 0 failure). Setting
+# it to 1 (ie: 100%) means all files will be checked, but that is
+# not a desirable setting since you are better off simply turning
+# caching off (ie: remove the --checksum-seed option).
+#
+# The default of 0.01 means 1% (on average) of the files during a full
+# backup will have their cached checksum re-checked.
+#
+# This setting has no effect unless checksum caching is turned on.
+#
+$Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} = 0.01;
+
#
# Arguments to rsync for backup. Do not edit the first set unless you
# have a thorough understanding of how File::RsyncP works.
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
- '--devices',
+ '-D',
'--links',
+ '--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
+
+ #
+ # Rsync >= 2.6.3 supports the --checksum-seed option
+ # which allows rsync checksum caching on the server.
+ # Uncomment this to enable rsync checksum caching if
+ # you have a recent client rsync version and you want
+ # to enable checksum caching.
+ #
+ #'--checksum-seed=32761',
+
#
# Add additional arguments here
#
# Arguments to rsync for restore. Do not edit the first set unless you
# have a thorough understanding of how File::RsyncP works.
#
+# If you want to disable direct restores using rsync (eg: is the module
+# is read-only), you should set $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to undef and
+# the corresponding CGI restore option will be removed.
#
$Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} = [
#
# Do not edit these!
#
- "--numeric-ids",
- "--perms",
- "--owner",
- "--group",
- "--devices",
- "--links",
- "--times",
- "--block-size=2048",
- "--relative",
- "--ignore-times",
- "--recursive",
+ '--numeric-ids',
+ '--perms',
+ '--owner',
+ '--group',
+ '-D',
+ '--links',
+ '--hard-links',
+ '--times',
+ '--block-size=2048',
+ '--relative',
+ '--ignore-times',
+ '--recursive',
+
+ #
+ # Rsync >= 2.6.3 supports the --checksum-seed option
+ # which allows rsync checksum caching on the server.
+ # Uncomment this to enable rsync checksum caching if
+ # you have a recent client rsync version and you want
+ # to enable checksum caching.
+ #
+ #'--checksum-seed=32761',
+
#
# Add additional arguments here
#
];
#
-# Amount of verbosity in Rsync Xfer log files. 0 means be quiet,
-# 1 will give will give one line per file, 2 will also show skipped
-# files on incrementals, higher values give more output. 10 will
-# include byte dumps of all data read/written, which will make the
-# log files huge.
+# Share name to backup. For $Conf{XferMethod} = "backuppcd" this should
+# be a file system path, eg '/' or '/home'.
+#
+# This can also be a list of multiple file system paths or modules.
+# (Can it??)
+#
+# $Conf{BackupPCdShareName} = ['/', '/var', '/data', '/boot'];
+#
+$Conf{BackupPCdShareName} = '/';
+
+#
+# Path to backuppcd executable on the server
#
-$Conf{RsyncLogLevel} = 1;
+$Conf{BackupPCdPath} = '';
+
+#
+# Full command to run backuppcd on the server to backup a given
+# client machine. The following variables are substituted at
+# run-time (TODO: update this list)
+#
+# $host host name being backed up
+# $hostIP host's IP address
+# $shareName share name to backup (ie: top-level directory path)
+# $backuppcdPath same as $Conf{BackupPCdPath}
+# $sshPath same as $Conf{SshPath}
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'backuppcd'.
+#
+# Arguments to backupcpd are:
+#
+# - the host name to backup
+# - the share name to backup
+# - the directory where the pool is
+# - the directory where the last run was (NOT DONE YET)
+# - a boolean value indicating whether or not the pool is
+# compressed or not
+# - the directory where the new run should occur (currently it assumes ".")
+#
+$Conf{BackupPCdCmd} = '$bpcdPath $host $shareName $poolDir XXXX $poolCompress $topDir/pc/$client/new';
+
+#
+# Full command to run backuppcd on the server for restore to a
+# client machine. The following variables are substituted at
+# run-time (TODO: update this list)
+#
+# $host host name being backed up
+# $hostIP host's IP address
+# $shareName share name to backup (ie: top-level directory path)
+# $backuppcdPath same as $Conf{BackupPCdPath}
+# $sshPath same as $Conf{SshPath}
+#
+# This setting only matters if $Conf{XferMethod} = 'backuppcd'.
+#
+$Conf{BackupPCdRestoreCmd} = '$bpcdPath TODO';
+
+
+#
+# Archive Destination
+#
+# The Destination of the archive
+# e.g. /tmp for file archive or /dev/nst0 for device archive
+#
+$Conf{ArchiveDest} = '/tmp';
+
+#
+# Archive Compression type
+#
+# The valid values are:
+#
+# - 'none': No Compression
+#
+# - 'gzip': Medium Compression. Recommended.
+#
+# - 'bzip2': High Compression but takes longer.
+#
+$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
+
+#
+# Archive Parity Files
+#
+# The amount of Parity data to generate, as a percentage
+# of the archive size.
+# Uses the commandline par2 (par2cmdline) available from
+# http://parchive.sourceforge.net
+#
+# Only useful for file dumps.
+#
+# Set to 0 to disable this feature.
+#
+$Conf{ArchivePar} = 0;
+
+#
+# Archive Size Split
+#
+# Only for file archives. Splits the output into
+# the specified size * 1,000,000.
+# e.g. to split into 650,000,000 bytes, specify 650 below.
+#
+# If the value is 0, or if $Conf{ArchiveDest} is an existing file or
+# device (e.g. a streaming tape drive), this feature is disabled.
+#
+$Conf{ArchiveSplit} = 0;
+
+#
+# Archive Command
+#
+# This is the command that is called to actually run the archive process
+# for each host. The following variables are substituted at run-time:
+#
+# $Installdir The installation directory of BackupPC
+# $tarCreatePath The path to BackupPC_tarCreate
+# $splitpath The path to the split program
+# $parpath The path to the par2 program
+# $host The host to archive
+# $backupnumber The backup number of the host to archive
+# $compression The path to the compression program
+# $compext The extension assigned to the compression type
+# $splitsize The number of bytes to split archives into
+# $archiveloc The location to put the archive
+# $parfile The amount of parity data to create (percentage)
+#
+$Conf{ArchiveClientCmd} = '$Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost'
+ . ' $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host $backupnumber'
+ . ' $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile *';
#
# Full path for ssh. Security caution: normal users should not
# allowed to write to this file or directory.
#
-$Conf{SshPath} = '/usr/bin/ssh';
+$Conf{SshPath} = '';
#
# Full path for nmblookup. Security caution: normal users should not
# nmblookup is from the Samba distribution. nmblookup is used to get the
# netbios name, necessary for DHCP hosts.
#
-$Conf{NmbLookupPath} = '/usr/bin/nmblookup';
+$Conf{NmbLookupPath} = '';
#
-# NmbLookup command. Several variables are substituted at run-time:
+# NmbLookup command. Given an IP address, does an nmblookup on that
+# IP address. The following variables are substituted at run-time:
#
# $nmbLookupPath path to nmblookup ($Conf{NmbLookupPath})
-# $host host name
+# $host IP address
+#
+# This command is only used for DHCP hosts: given an IP address, this
+# command should try to find its NetBios name.
#
$Conf{NmbLookupCmd} = '$nmbLookupPath -A $host';
+#
+# NmbLookup command. Given a netbios name, finds that host by doing
+# a NetBios lookup. Several variables are substituted at run-time:
+#
+# $nmbLookupPath path to nmblookup ($Conf{NmbLookupPath})
+# $host NetBios name
+#
+# In some cases you might need to change the broadcast address, for
+# example if nmblookup uses 192.168.255.255 by default and you find
+# that doesn't work, try 192.168.1.255 (or your equivalent class C
+# address) using the -B option:
+#
+# $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd} = '$nmbLookupPath -B 192.168.1.255 $host';
+#
+# If you use a WINS server and your machines don't respond to
+# multicast NetBios requests you can use this (replace 1.2.3.4
+# with the IP address of your WINS server):
+#
+# $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd} = '$nmbLookupPath -R -U 1.2.3.4 $host';
+#
+# This is preferred over multicast since it minimizes network traffic.
+#
+# Experiment manually for your site to see what form of nmblookup command
+# works.
+#
+$Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd} = '$nmbLookupPath $host';
+
#
# For fixed IP address hosts, BackupPC_dump can also verify the netbios
# name to ensure it matches the host name. An error is generated if
#
# $Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/echo';
#
-$Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/ping';
+$Conf{PingPath} = '';
#
-# Ping command. Several variables are substituted at run-time:
+# Ping command. The following variables are substituted at run-time:
#
# $pingPath path to ping ($Conf{PingPath})
# $host host name
#
+# Wade Brown reports that on solaris 2.6 and 2.7 ping -s returns the wrong
+# exit status (0 even on failure). Replace with "ping $host 1", which
+# gets the correct exit status but we don't get the round-trip time.
+#
$Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -c 1 $host';
+#
+# Maximum round-trip ping time in milliseconds. This threshold is set
+# to avoid backing up PCs that are remotely connected through WAN or
+# dialup connections. The output from ping -s (assuming it is supported
+# on your system) is used to check the round-trip packet time. On your
+# local LAN round-trip times should be much less than 20msec. On most
+# WAN or dialup connections the round-trip time will be typically more
+# than 20msec. Tune if necessary.
+#
+$Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 20;
+
#
# Compression level to use on files. 0 means no compression. Compression
# levels can be from 1 (least cpu time, slightly worse compression) to
#
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
-#
-# Maximum round-trip ping time in milliseconds. This threshold is set
-# to avoid backing up PCs that are remotely connected through WAN or
-# dialup connections. The output from ping -s (assuming it is supported
-# on your system) is used to check the round-trip packet time. On your
-# local LAN round-trip times should be much less than 20msec. On most
-# WAN or dialup connections the round-trip time will be typically more
-# than 20msec. Tune if necessary.
-#
-$Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 20;
-
#
# Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's
# (smbclient, tar etc) stdout. If no output is received during this
# Despite the name, this parameter sets the timeout for all transport
# methods (tar, smb etc).
#
-$Conf{ClientTimeout} = 7200;
+$Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000;
#
# Maximum number of log files we keep around in each PC's directory
$Conf{MaxOldPerPCLogFiles} = 12;
#
-# Optional commands to run before and after dumps and restores.
+# Optional commands to run before and after dumps and restores,
+# and also before and after each share of a dump.
+#
# Stdout from these commands will be written to the Xfer (or Restore)
# log file. One example of using these commands would be to
-# shut down and restart a database server, or to dump a database
-# to files for backup. Example:
-#
-# $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '$sshPath -l root $host /usr/bin/dumpMysql';
-#
-# Various variable substitutions are available; see BackupPC_dump
-# or BackupPC_restore for the details.
+# shut down and restart a database server, dump a database
+# to files for backup, or doing a snapshot of a share prior
+# to a backup. Example:
+#
+# $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/dumpMysql';
+#
+# The following variable substitutions are made at run time for
+# $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}, $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd}, $Conf{DumpPreShareCmd}
+# and $Conf{DumpPostShareCmd}:
+#
+# $type type of dump (incr or full)
+# $xferOK 1 if the dump succeeded, 0 if it didn't
+# $client client name being backed up
+# $host host name (could be different from client name if
+# $Conf{ClientNameAlias} is set)
+# $hostIP IP address of host
+# $user user name from the hosts file
+# $moreUsers list of additional users from the hosts file
+# $share the first share name (or current share for
+# $Conf{DumpPreShareCmd} and $Conf{DumpPostShareCmd})
+# $shares list of all the share names
+# $XferMethod value of $Conf{XferMethod} (eg: tar, rsync, smb)
+# $sshPath value of $Conf{SshPath},
+# $cmdType set to DumpPreUserCmd or DumpPostUserCmd
+#
+# The following variable substitutions are made at run time for
+# $Conf{RestorePreUserCmd} and $Conf{RestorePostUserCmd}:
+#
+# $client client name being backed up
+# $xferOK 1 if the restore succeeded, 0 if it didn't
+# $host host name (could be different from client name if
+# $Conf{ClientNameAlias} is set)
+# $hostIP IP address of host
+# $user user name from the hosts file
+# $moreUsers list of additional users from the hosts file
+# $share the first share name
+# $XferMethod value of $Conf{XferMethod} (eg: tar, rsync, smb)
+# $sshPath value of $Conf{SshPath},
+# $type set to "restore"
+# $bkupSrcHost host name of the restore source
+# $bkupSrcShare share name of the restore source
+# $bkupSrcNum backup number of the restore source
+# $pathHdrSrc common starting path of restore source
+# $pathHdrDest common starting path of destination
+# $fileList list of files being restored
+# $cmdType set to RestorePreUserCmd or RestorePostUserCmd
+#
+# The following variable substitutions are made at run time for
+# $Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd} and $Conf{ArchivePostUserCmd}:
+#
+# $client client name being backed up
+# $xferOK 1 if the archive succeeded, 0 if it didn't
+# $host Name of the archive host
+# $user user name from the hosts file
+# $share the first share name
+# $XferMethod value of $Conf{XferMethod} (eg: tar, rsync, smb)
+# $HostList list of hosts being archived
+# $BackupList list of backup numbers for the hosts being archived
+# $archiveloc location where the archive is sent to
+# $parfile amount of parity data being generated (percentage)
+# $compression compression program being used (eg: cat, gzip, bzip2)
+# $compext extension used for compression type (eg: raw, gz, bz2)
+# $splitsize size of the files that the archive creates
+# $sshPath value of $Conf{SshPath},
+# $type set to "archive"
+# $cmdType set to ArchivePreUserCmd or ArchivePostUserCmd
#
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = undef;
$Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = undef;
+$Conf{DumpPreShareCmd} = undef;
+$Conf{DumpPostShareCmd} = undef;
$Conf{RestorePreUserCmd} = undef;
$Conf{RestorePostUserCmd} = undef;
+$Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd} = undef;
+$Conf{ArchivePostUserCmd} = undef;
#
-# Advanced option for asking BackupPC to load additional perl modules.
-# Can be a list (array ref) of module names to load at startup.
+# Whether the exit status of each PreUserCmd and
+# PostUserCmd is checked.
#
-$Conf{PerlModuleLoad} = undef;
+# If set and the Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post UserCmd
+# returns a non-zero exit status then the dump/restore/archive
+# is aborted. To maintain backward compatibility (where
+# the exit status in early versions was always ignored),
+# this flag defaults to 0.
+#
+# If this flag is set and the Dump/Restore/Archive PreUserCmd
+# fails then the matching Dump/Restore/Archive PostUserCmd is
+# not executed. If DumpPreShareCmd returns a non-exit status,
+# then DumpPostShareCmd is not executed, but the DumpPostUserCmd
+# is still run (since DumpPreUserCmd must have previously
+# succeeded).
+#
+# An example of a DumpPreUserCmd that might fail is a script
+# that snapshots or dumps a database which fails because
+# of some database error.
+#
+$Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} = 0;
+
+#
+# Override the client's host name. This allows multiple clients
+# to all refer to the same physical host. This should only be
+# set in the per-PC config file and is only used by BackupPC at
+# the last moment prior to generating the command used to backup
+# that machine (ie: the value of $Conf{ClientNameAlias} is invisible
+# everywhere else in BackupPC). The setting can be a host name or
+# IP address, eg:
+#
+# $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'realHostName';
+# $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.1.1.15';
+#
+# will cause the relevant smb/tar/rsync backup/restore commands to be
+# directed to realHostName, not the client name.
+#
+# Note: this setting doesn't work for hosts with DHCP set to 1.
+#
+$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = undef;
###########################################################################
# Email reminders, status and messages
# Full path to the sendmail command. Security caution: normal users
# should not allowed to write to this file or directory.
#
-$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
+$Conf{SendmailPath} = '';
#
# Minimum period between consecutive emails to a single user.
$Conf{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} = undef;
$Conf{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} = undef;
+#
+# Additional email headers. If you change the charset
+# to utf8 then BackupPC_sendEmail will use utf8 for
+# the email body.
+#
+$Conf{EMailHeaders} = <<EOF;
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
+EOF
+
###########################################################################
# CGI user interface configuration settings
# (can be overridden in the per-PC config.pl)
#
# Language to use. See lib/BackupPC/Lang for the list of supported
-# languages, which includes English (en) and French (fr). Currently
-# this applies mainly to the CGI interface, but over time it might
-# also include log files and other text output.
+# languages, which include English (en), French (fr), Spanish (es),
+# German (de), Italian (it), Dutch (nl) and Portuguese Brazillian
+# (pt_br).
+#
+# Currently the Language setting applies to the CGI interface and email
+# messages sent to users. Log files and other text are still in English.
#
$Conf{Language} = 'en';
#
# If set, the complete list of hosts appears in the left navigation
-# bar for administrators. Otherwise, just the hosts for which the
-# user is listed in the host file (as either the user or in moreUsers)
+# bar pull-down for administrators. Otherwise, just the hosts for which
+# the user is listed in the host file (as either the user or in moreUsers)
# are displayed.
#
-$Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} = 0;
+$Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} = 1;
#
-# Header font and size for CGI interface
+# Enable/disable the search box in the navigation bar.
#
-$Conf{CgiHeaderFontType} = 'arial';
-$Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize} = '3';
+$Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} = 1;
#
-# Color scheme for CGI interface. Default values give a very light blue
-# for the background navigation color, green for the header background,
-# and white for the body background. (You call tell I should stick to
-# programming and not graphical design.)
+# Additional navigation bar links. These appear for both regular users
+# and administrators. This is a list of hashes giving the link (URL)
+# and the text (name) for the link. Specifying lname instead of name
+# uses the language specific string (ie: $Lang->{lname}) instead of
+# just literally displaying name.
#
-$Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor} = '#ddeeee';
-$Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor} = '#99cc33';
-$Conf{CgiBodyBgColor} = '#ffffff';
+$Conf{CgiNavBarLinks} = [
+ {
+ link => "?action=view&type=docs",
+ lname => "Documentation", # actually displays $Lang->{Documentation}
+ },
+ {
+ link => "http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq",
+ name => "FAQ", # displays literal "FAQ"
+ },
+ {
+ link => "http://backuppc.sourceforge.net",
+ name => "SourceForge", # displays literal "SourceForge"
+ },
+];
#
-# Additional CGI header text. For example, if you wanted each CGI page
-# to auto refresh every 900 seconds, you could add this text:
+# Hilight colors based on status that are used in the PC summary page.
+#
+$Conf{CgiStatusHilightColor} = {
+ Reason_backup_failed => '#ffcccc',
+ Reason_backup_done => '#ccffcc',
+ Reason_no_ping => '#ffff99',
+ Reason_backup_canceled_by_user => '#ff9900',
+ Status_backup_in_progress => '#66cc99',
+ Disabled_OnlyManualBackups => '#d1d1d1',
+ Disabled_AllBackupsDisabled => '#d1d1d1',
+};
+
#
-# <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="900">
+# Additional CGI header text.
#
$Conf{CgiHeaders} = '<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">';
# $Conf{CgiImageDirURL} = '/BackupPC';
#
$Conf{CgiImageDirURL} = '';
+
+#
+# CSS stylesheet "skin" for the CGI interface. It is stored
+# in the $Conf{CgiImageDir} directory and accessed via the
+# $Conf{CgiImageDirURL} URL.
+#
+# For BackupPC v3.x several color, layout and font changes were made.
+# The previous v2.x version is available as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css, so
+# if you prefer the old skin, change this to BackupPC_stnd_orig.css.
+#
+$Conf{CgiCSSFile} = 'BackupPC_stnd.css';
+
+#
+# Whether the user is allowed to edit their per-PC config.
+#
+$Conf{CgiUserConfigEditEnable} = 1;
+
+#
+# Which per-host config variables a non-admin user is allowed
+# to edit. Admin users can edit all per-host config variables,
+# even if disabled in this list.
+#
+# SECURITY WARNING: Do not let users edit any of the Cmd
+# config variables! That's because a user could set a
+# Cmd to a shell script of their choice and it will be
+# run as the BackupPC user. That script could do all
+# sorts of bad things.
+#
+$Conf{CgiUserConfigEdit} = {
+ FullPeriod => 1,
+ IncrPeriod => 1,
+ FullKeepCnt => 1,
+ FullKeepCntMin => 1,
+ FullAgeMax => 1,
+ IncrKeepCnt => 1,
+ IncrKeepCntMin => 1,
+ IncrAgeMax => 1,
+ IncrLevels => 1,
+ IncrFill => 1,
+ PartialAgeMax => 1,
+ RestoreInfoKeepCnt => 1,
+ ArchiveInfoKeepCnt => 1,
+ BackupFilesOnly => 1,
+ BackupFilesExclude => 1,
+ BackupsDisable => 1,
+ BlackoutBadPingLimit => 1,
+ BlackoutGoodCnt => 1,
+ BlackoutPeriods => 1,
+ BackupZeroFilesIsFatal => 1,
+ ClientCharset => 1,
+ XferMethod => 1,
+ XferLogLevel => 1,
+ SmbShareName => 1,
+ SmbShareUserName => 1,
+ SmbSharePasswd => 1,
+ SmbClientFullCmd => 0,
+ SmbClientIncrCmd => 0,
+ SmbClientRestoreCmd => 0,
+ TarShareName => 1,
+ TarFullArgs => 1,
+ TarIncrArgs => 1,
+ TarClientCmd => 0,
+ TarClientRestoreCmd => 0,
+ RsyncShareName => 1,
+ RsyncdClientPort => 1,
+ RsyncdPasswd => 1,
+ RsyncdAuthRequired => 1,
+ RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb => 1,
+ RsyncArgs => 1,
+ RsyncRestoreArgs => 1,
+ RsyncClientCmd => 0,
+ RsyncClientRestoreCmd => 0,
+ ArchiveDest => 1,
+ ArchiveComp => 1,
+ ArchivePar => 1,
+ ArchiveSplit => 1,
+ ArchiveClientCmd => 0,
+ FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck => 1,
+ NmbLookupCmd => 0,
+ NmbLookupFindHostCmd => 0,
+ PingMaxMsec => 1,
+ PingCmd => 0,
+ ClientTimeout => 1,
+ MaxOldPerPCLogFiles => 1,
+ CompressLevel => 1,
+ ClientNameAlias => 1,
+ DumpPreUserCmd => 0,
+ DumpPostUserCmd => 0,
+ RestorePreUserCmd => 0,
+ RestorePostUserCmd => 0,
+ ArchivePreUserCmd => 0,
+ ArchivePostUserCmd => 0,
+ DumpPostShareCmd => 0,
+ DumpPreShareCmd => 0,
+ UserCmdCheckStatus => 0,
+ EMailNotifyMinDays => 1,
+ EMailFromUserName => 1,
+ EMailAdminUserName => 1,
+ EMailUserDestDomain => 1,
+ EMailNoBackupEverSubj => 1,
+ EMailNoBackupEverMesg => 1,
+ EMailNotifyOldBackupDays => 1,
+ EMailNoBackupRecentSubj => 1,
+ EMailNoBackupRecentMesg => 1,
+ EMailNotifyOldOutlookDays => 1,
+ EMailOutlookBackupSubj => 1,
+ EMailOutlookBackupMesg => 1,
+ EMailHeaders => 1,
+};