Timothy J Massey wrote at about 09:41:53 -0500 on Friday, February 10, 2012: > 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?
Seems trivial to me (plus or minus some buffering delay)... tail -n +0 -f /path/to/XferLog.Z | BackupPC_zcat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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/