Thanks for your reply!! For clarity: So using off-line archive means that the restor functions in BackupPC are not of any use to me? I restore managing the backups as any tar archive?
Magnus On Saturday 26 November 2005 01.57, Les Mikesell wrote: > >From: Magnus Larsson > > > > So: each week I archive the backup on DVD:s. But how to restore > > these backups? The restore function seems only to know about the > > single backup kept on the disk. > > Archive backups are tar images, optionally compressed and split > into chunks. Feed them to tar -x to extract/restore. If they > are compressed and split, use zcat to combine them back into > a stream. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
