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authorFlorian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>2017-12-02 23:18:42 +0100
committerFlorian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>2017-12-02 23:18:42 +0100
commit8f29617a6873798f675bb0944929ee3813a26eeb (patch)
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parent028f5e7f7580f2fc597e96caaea583f3a7978b63 (diff)
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Properly document removal of prefixes via @backup_prefixes
Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/App')
-rw-r--r--lib/App/BorgRestore/Settings.pm13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/App/BorgRestore/Settings.pm b/lib/App/BorgRestore/Settings.pm
index a581dab..aef01a3 100644
--- a/lib/App/BorgRestore/Settings.pm
+++ b/lib/App/BorgRestore/Settings.pm
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ This defaults to "C<$XDG_CACHE_HOME>/borg-restore.pl". It contains the lookup da
=item C<@backup_prefixes>
-This is an array of prefixes that need to be added when looking up a file in the
-backup archives. If you use filesystem snapshots and the snapshot for /home is
-located at /mnt/snapshots/home, you have to add the following:
+This is an array of prefixes that need to be added or removed when looking up a
+file in the backup archives. If you use filesystem snapshots and the snapshot
+for /home is located at /mnt/snapshots/home, you have to add the following:
# In the backup archives, /home has the path /mnt/snapshots/home
{regex => "^/home/", replacement => "mnt/snapshots/home/"},
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ same string. The first regex that matches for a given file is used. This
setting only affects lookups, it does not affect the creation of the database
with --update-database.
+If you create a backup of /home/user only, you will need to use the following:
+
+# In the backup archives, /home/user/foo has the path foo
+{regex => "^/home/user", replacement => ""},
+
=item C<$sqlite_cache_size>
Default: 102400
@@ -83,7 +88,7 @@ the disk too much.
@backup_prefixes = (
{regex => "^/home/", replacement => "mnt/snapshots/home/"},
# /boot is not snapshotted
- {regex => "^/boot", replacement => ""},
+ {regex => "^/boot/", replacement => "boot"},
{regex => "^/", replacement => "mnt/snapshots/root/"},
);
$sqlite_cache_size = 2097152;