Yes. I think I made that clear in my reply. Using find in the host backup tree will work for directories (if you account for the directory name mangling), but not for files.
Craig On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:14 AM Raff Cssa <milan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Don't BackupPc V4 backups have empty folders tree structure only? Find > doesn't work there. > > > > > *Da: *Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users > *Inviato: *giovedì 16 aprile 2020 18:08 > *A: *General list for user discussion, questions and support > *Rispondi a: *General list for user discussion, questions and support > *Cc: *Craig Barratt; G.W. Haywood > *Oggetto: *Re: [BackupPC-users] Efficiently browsing backups > > The storage of a full backup includes the full directory tree below each > share, although directory and share names are mangled - preceded by an "f" > and special characters (like "/") are URL encoded. > > So, since you are looking for a directory, find is likely the most > efficient solution, starting as deep into the directory tree as possible. > > If instead you were looking for file, then find won't work since files are > only stored as references in the attrib file in each directory. So in that > case your approach of using BackupPC_ls is the best option (but slow as you > point out). > > Craig > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:14 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users < > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Alwyn Kik wrote: >> >> > What is the best way to find a file or directory ... >> >> man find >> >> -- >> >> 73, >> Ged. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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