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Re: defaults for restore operation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jan 3 19:20:01 1996
To: Diane Delgado <delgado@MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena-backup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:42:31 EST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 19:19:55 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Do we want to force the user to always specify a target server and
>> target partition for the restore opeation or should we allow the
>> server and partition to default to the current server and partition if
>> unspecified by the user?
It shouldn't require the user to give it a server/partition (IMHO),
although I'm not sure whether it would be better for it to default to
the current partition, or pick one from some list. It's probably
easist to have it default to the current, but perform some sanity
checks about space, etc.
Jonathon