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bad config.pl causes all backups to be deleted
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"Christian G. Warden" writes:
Yesterday, one of my coworkers accidentally replaced config.pl with the
following:

$Conf{XferMethod} = "rsyncd";
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = "system";
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/winnt'];

Now, obviously, this is a bad thing to do, but when backups started last
night, each host's backups were deleted:
2004/2/5 22:00:00 removing incr backup 6
2004/2/5 22:00:00 removing incr backup 8
2004/2/5 22:00:00 removing incr backup 9
2004/2/5 22:00:00 removing incr backup 10
2004/2/5 22:00:01 removing incr backup 11
2004/2/5 22:00:01 removing incr backup 12
2004/2/5 22:00:01 removing full backup 0
2004/2/5 22:00:01 removing full backup 7

May I suggest that if backuppc finds an incomplete config file (to be
defined) that it aborts?

I've changed it so that if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is <= 0 (or undefined)
then no backups will be expired. This fix is now in CVS, so it will
be in the next version.

Craig


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