[Box Backup] Failing in plain sight

Richard Hurt boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:38:10 -0400


WooT!  That did it.  Now the weird part is that my bunged up config
file didn't generate an error AND the Wiki/docs are not very clear
about exactly how this section is supposed to be.  Maybe adding an
example to them will help prevent this mistake from happening to
someone else.

Thanx!
  Richard

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Richard Hurt wrote:
>
>> BackupLocations
>> {
>>     Path = /root
>> }
>
> This looks wrong to me. There should be a brace stanza inside
> BackupLocations giving the name of the location, which is used as the
> directory name on the store.  Something like this:
>
> BackupLocations
> {
>        root
>        {
>                Path = /root
>        }
> }
>
> I'm surprised that this passed the config check. I'll test it.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
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