There is also a fuse file system for backuppc that allows one to browse a read-only version of the backup using all the common *nix tools (e.g., cd, ls, find, cat etc.) It's slow too... but very transparent and user friendly...
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote at about 09:06:10 -0700 on Thursday, April 16, 2020: > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
