mysql: No longer prepend vroot to the backupdir.

[matthijs/upstream/backupninja.git] / examples / example.mysql

diff --git a/examples/example.mysql b/examples/example.mysql
index a16a9d068b4313000863d12405a764a5b807742a..00298451b003961e01809ef351b25652c7fe044a 100644 (file)
--- a/examples/example.mysql
+++ b/examples/example.mysql
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ compress    = yes
 #
 # hotcopy = < yes | no > (default = no)
 # make a backup of the actual database binary files using mysqlhotcopy.
+# When using hotcopy, backupdir must be a dir inside each vserver! You can use
+# the interpolation feature to do this for multiple vservers by starting
+# backupdir with %v (not /%v), which will be replaced by the current
+# vserver root.
 #
 # sqldump = < yes | no > (default = no)
 # make a backup using mysqldump. this creates text files with sql commands
@@ -87,5 +91,11 @@ compress    = yes
 # in /etc/backupninja.conf), if you do not specify vsnames the 
 # host will be operated on.
 # 
+# Note that backupninja 0.9.6 and before used "vsname" to run in a single
+# vserver. It also automatically prepended the vserver root directory to
+# backupdir. Newer versions still do this if you're using the deprecated (but
+# still supported) "vsname" variable. To achieve the same effect while using
+# the vsnames variable, prepend backupdir with %v
+# 
 # NB: databases = all doesn't seem to work with hotcopy = yes 
 # when vsname is specified, I would like to know how to fix this.