Arnold Krille wrote at about 18:10:03 +0100 on Friday, December 2, 2011: > On Friday 02 December 2011 17:33:41 Igor Sverkos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > today I browsed through the backup data folder. Is it normal that > > folders look like > > > > /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/foo.example.org/252/f%2f/fetc > > ^^^^ ^ > > This is the backuped "/etc" folder from the foo.example.org (linux) host. > > > > Every folder/file is prefixed with a "f" char and I don't understand the > > folder name "f%2f". Doesn't look right to me. > > > > Every backed up host shows that... > > Thats perfectly normal. You will notice that file attributes are "wrong" > too. > That is because the attributes are stored separat. thus the f-prefix notes > that > this is a backuppc-thing. and f%2f is the notion of / in backuppc's own > "language".
The f-prefix is called f-mangling in backuppc language. The f%2f is really f-mangling plus %2f which is really just standard encoding for '/' -- other special characters are similarly encoded... > Of course this looks strange directly on the file-system. But you are not > supposed to use these file without the help of backuppc anyway. backuppc-fuse mounts the backuppc backups using the fuse file system which allows you to browse backups without the f-mangling and with the proper file attributes and with incremental backups properly filled using previous fulls/incrementals. You can then use standard *nix tools to browse/access/manipulate the corresponding files. The only downside is that it is a bit slow (but still faster than the backuppc web interface) since each directory listing requires the corresponding attrib file to be read, decompressed, and decoded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/