#3204 PR merged: Better describe OUTPUT_PREFIX and NETFS_PREFIX¶
Labels: documentation, fixed / solved / done
jsmeix opened issue at 2024-04-09 14:51:¶
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Type: Enhancement
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Impact: None
No default should change.
- Reference to related issue (URL):
No GitHub issue.
A colleague asked me how to get backup.tar.gz
and the ISO and all other RESULT_FILES
in the same directory that is not $HOSTNAME.
I had to somewhat reverse engineer things to find out how
because this is basically not described in default.conf.
- How was this pull request tested?
I did not yet test that this pull request
does not change anything.
I had only tested that with
OUTPUT=ISO
OUTPUT_PREFIX="my_prefix"
NETFS_PREFIX="$OUTPUT_PREFIX"
BACKUP=NETFS
BACKUP_URL=file:///other/
backup.tar.gz and the ISO and all other RESULT_FILES
get stored in the same "my_prefix" directory.
- Description of the changes in this pull request:
In default.conf better descriptions
for OUTPUT_PREFIX and NETFS_PREFIX
(OUTPUT_PREFIX was not at all described)
plus explanation how OUTPUT_PREFIX and NETFS_PREFIX
belong to each other for the usual case
OUTPUT=ISO and BACKUP=NETFS
and made it explicit that by default
NETFS_PREFIX="$OUTPUT_PREFIX"
to get backup.tar.gz and ISO image stored at the same place.
jsmeix commented at 2024-04-18 09:46:¶
@rear/contributors
my changes here are only comments in default.conf
so they cannot change what ReaR does when it runs
but wrong or misleading comments in default.conf
could make things go wrong for our users
when they do not get correct information from us
so I would appreciate at least a quick review
and an explicit approval from one of you.
jsmeix commented at 2024-04-19 06:45:¶
@gdha
thank you for having a look here!
I also think "all bits help", cf.
I think better try to improve things than do nothing.
in my
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3182#issuecomment-2065861644
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