On 1/28/2011 12:21 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote at about 11:49:21 -0500 on Thursday, January 27, 2011: > > On 1/27/2011 8:05 AM, Erik Shreve wrote: > > > I've been reading the archives and documentation but haven't been able > > > to find a clear answer... > > > > > > I have backuppc backing up the machine it runs on to a NAS. Thus > > > everything under __TOPDIR__ is on the NAS. Meanwhile the backuppc > > > binaries and configuration are on the server. > > > > > > If I were to loose the server, how hard would it be to restore data from > > > the NAS? Obviously I'd have to rebuild a server and install BackupPC > > > again. If I had BackupPC backing up its config directory, would it be > > > easy to extract those files from the cpool? > > > > Getting the files out of the pc directory in your data store is easy > > since it has the same structure as the original directory (aside from > > the obvious addition of the 'f' to the filenames). Just use the > > BackupPC_zcat program to uncompress the config files. > > Not sure if this is what you are implying... but zcat'ing the > f-mangled pc dir files directly is *not* generally a good idea unless > you just want the straight *contents* of a file or two and know what > you are doing. > Because: > - The fmangling gets in the way (and it's not just a prepended 'f' > but also non-ascii alphanumeric chars get encoded) > - You lose the file ownership, perms, timestamps, etc > - It doesn't deal properly with links (soft or hard) and special > files.
Right, but it should work just fine to pull the config files out of the backup so you can get the newly installed backuppc instance up and running. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
