Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-23 08:40:21 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of?files]: > [...] > In this instance, I was able to come up with enough free space to be able > to do the complete restore and then grab the data I needed from that.
for the archives: you don't strictly *need* the free space. You can pipe the output of BackupPC_tarCreate directly into a 'tar x' and tell tar to only extract files named '*.pdf', something like BackupPC_tarCreate -h host -n 123 -s /share /path \ | tar xf - --wildcards '*.pdf' '*.PDF' (just to demonstrate that you can specify more than one glob). This can be problematic, in a way: if you get something wrong about the tar command line, you will likely find out that the file(s) you were expecting were not extracted, and you will need to repeat the whole lengthy process, whereas with a complete restore, you can simply navigate the result and select whatever you need. This seems to be another good case for using the fuse module. You can navigate the backup view (or run a 'find', 'rsync', ...) at a relatively low cost and only need to read/decompress the file data you actually act on - and you don't need any intermediate storage space. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ 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/