Re: Re: another Feature Request

[On 27 May, @13:05, Rob wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Re: another Fe ..."]
> 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 be nice, but if I (we?) go this route it's better to start
from scratch and write a hdup2.0... 

Which would be a nice thing to do, but right now hdup serves my
personal itch quite satisfactory :-)

grtz,
--Miek

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