Re: Dar slice numbering

On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:51, Thomas Jacob wrote:

> Just to add my thoughts on this, I think it's not
> a good idea to simply turn dar slice numbers into fixed 4
> digit strings, as this could possibly break any number of
> old scripts that assume otherwise.
> 
> If this implemented at all then please please as an optional extra,
> possibly
> by allowing the user the specify a complete alternate format
> string for generating the filenames ("something%02d.mydar" with
> "<BASENAME>.%d.dar" remaining the default as it is).

Having it as an option is basically a good idea, but it does create yet another
option.

> 
> That being said I would question the need for this in principle,
> if you have so many slice numbers to make you lose track of
> them you probably are using scripts to handle your backups
> already, so beefing up your script logic should be the way to
> go, instead of expecting dar to do another little thing that
> could easily be handled in a script.

I disagree. I automatically make a backup once in a while to an external hard
drive, but I also occasionally burn it to DVD. Selecting which slices go to
which DVD is done by hand. I could automate that, but in my opinion, you
should still be able to list the files correctly for any number of things you
want to do with it.


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