Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>On 07/19 03:02 , John Pettitt wrote: > > >>Has anybody written a script to take a backuppc file tree and un mangle, >>un compress and write it as a plain file tree? I'm looking for a way to >>restore to file system mounted on my backuppc server without going >>through a tar/untar process. It looks like a simple enough thing to >>write but I figure I'd ask before I started on it ... >> >> > >what it sounds like you're asking for is a slightly more discoverable (i.e. >easier to figure out) front-end to the BackupPC_tarCreate command. > >No, it really hasn't been done; but then again, I don't consider: >/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h <hostname> -n -1 -s / /| \ >tar xv -C /var/tmp > >to be that outrageous a thing to type. (tho admittedly it's not easily >'discoverable'). > > > Actually no - I specifically don't want to go though a tar/untar step because for some reason on my FreeBSD 5.4 box BackupPC_tarCreate has a memory leak that causes it to fail after a few thousand files. I was looking for a way round that bug. John ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
