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Matthew Feinberg wrote a message to the forum about a feature he wanted to
see in REOBack. Ironically, that feature already exists. It was never
advertised as it required a slight code change. If you are brave enough
to change a few lines of code, here's the details:

The Request:

It would be great to allow wild cards in the backs.

For example. In web hosting I can offer a backup service where we backup
and maintain individual backups for individual sites.

A wild card would be used like this.

/usr/local/www/*

where * is the directory (using the site name) where the virtual sites
lives. Ideally this would create seperate backup files like.

rh001-domain1.com-full-20010828-0137PM.8.tgz
rh001-domain2.com-1-full-20010828-0137PM.8.tgz

...

The Solution:

1. Look for a line in the reoback.pl that looks like:

#&backupDir("/home/sforge/reoback", "Reoback", 1);

2. Change it to:
&backupDir ("/usr/local/www/", "rh001", 1);

Note that you can repeat the same line of code for other directories that
you want to archive in a similar fashion.

Have fun!