"Chuck Witt" writes: > I am wondering if there is a way to "regenerate" the data that exists in a > file named "backups". It is located in /data/pc/username/. There appears to > be an accompanying file named "backups.old". I don't know what happened but > my backuppc machine shut down unexpectedly over the weekend and when I > looked into getting it running I found that some users had the files > mentioned above missing (either one of them or both). As far as I can tell > all of the numbered backups still exist in the users directory. Is there a > way to retreive the old backup info? Thanks in advance for any help you may > be able to give me.
Yes, it is possible to create a skeleton backups file that would allow the old backups to be browsed and restored. However, I haven't written a script to do this. Check in the backups.old file. It should be a previous version that has some or all of the information you need. Some of the stats information (eg: number of new or existing files, total file sizes) would be harder, but not impossible, to recreate. If you really need to access these old backups then I can cook up a script that re-creates the backups file. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
