Re: Re: another Feature Request

Another feature request I meant to ask for.

gnu tar allows use of volume labels.
  -V, --label=NAME                   create archive with volume name NAME

[[email protected] /]$ more .bkup_label
V--------- 0/0               0 2004-05-26 03:30:01 
neo.empoweringmedia.net-FULL-20040526-0330--Volume Header--

Perhaps there could be another option in the hdup.conf file
called
tar backup options =
tar restore options =

which would accept additional options on the tar command line.

with this allow use of meta characters such as
%D = date (as per format selected)
%T = time (hh:mm)
%H = Hostname
%S = Scheme

this would then equate to use such as

tar backup options  = "-V %H-%S-%D-%T"
tar restore options = ""

Now if a person has gnu tar they can add volume labels.
and if not they can leave out the extra options altogether.

In any case the extra tar options gives the adminstrator extra 
flexibility to use other options such as

  -k, --keep-old-files     don't replace existing files when extracting
       --owner=NAME        force NAME as owner for added files
       --group=NAME        force NAME as group for added files
       --mode=CHANGES      force (symbolic) mode CHANGES for added files
       --atime-preserve    don't change access times on dumped files