On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com>wrote:
> > 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).
>
>
It's pretty rare to have problems that change in realtime between logfile
lines. Relax a little, get a cup of coffee, check the results when they
show up.
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! :(
>
>
How is the documented BackupPC_zcat program broken.
> Or, at least, outsmart me. Does someone have a way to simulate a "tail
> -f" with the compressed logs?
>
Do it the same way tail does it. Sleep a while and read again.
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