Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote on 02/10/2012 01:06:54 AM:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Backuppc uses a special compression format. You can read it with the
> > BackupPC_zcat program. On my machine, it is located in
> > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin.
>
>
> I love BackupPC, but that is the *dumbest* thing *ever*. (Sorry,
> Craig! :) ).
>
> And even if you for some reason thought that was a *brilliant* idea,
> why wouldn't you change the extension? Would bpz be so hard? :)
>
> Most people would read them by clicking on the links in the web
> interface and not know/care whether there was an extension or not.
Touche. But doesn't make this any smarter than it was...
I usually monitor backups (especially when I've just created a new guest
to back up or when I'm having problems) by "tail -f /path/to/XferLog". I
can't do that with these compressed log files (or, I can't figure out how
to, anyway).
GUI's are great and all (and I use BackupPC's a *lot*), but it would be
nice to not have them break the command line, too! :(
Or, at least, outsmart me. Does someone have a way to simulate a "tail
-f" with the compressed logs?
Tim Massey
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