#933 Issue closed: Confusing name of configuration directives

Labels: enhancement, documentation, won't fix / can't fix / obsolete

tcerna opened issue at 2016-07-20 14:15:

  • rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V):
    rear-1.17.2
  • OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a):
    RHEL-7.2 Server
  • Brief description of the issue
    Rear contains two basic possibilities during create backup:
    • Create data backup: user should specify configuration directives BACKUP and BACKUP_URL
    • Create rescue image: user should specify OUTPUT and OUTPUT_URL

We had rear testday and most of participants told that names of configuration directives OUTPUT and OUTPUT_URL are really confusing. They are not able to navigate skillfully if it covers data backup or rescue image. Yes, there is manual page and documentation, they use it, but this problem was still appearing. They proposed renaming this variables to for example RESCUE and RESCUE_URL. Also it is possible to preserve old directives as visible or hide options.

scr4bble commented at 2016-07-20 15:48:

Hi Terka, sorry - I forgot to tell you about filling this issue here. I have opened it 6 days ago.
#920 "confused by names - OUTPUT vs BACKUP variables"

jsmeix commented at 2016-07-21 07:45:

I close this one because it is a duplicate of https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/920

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]