DW, I'd recommend using BackupPC_ls -R to recursively list all the files in a particular backup. You'd need to run it only each of your hosts on the latest backup.
Craig On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:41 PM David Wynn via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I’ve tried to search using some different keywords and combinations but > have had no luck in finding an answer. Here’s my situation … I am backing > up around 150 different files from a NAS but using multiple hosts to do so > in order to keep the file transfer size down to <20GB at a time. This is > across the ‘internet’ so bandwidth is not under my control and I want to > make sure the jobs don’t crap out at bad times. I’ve found that <20GB at a > time usually works great. > > > > But, in order to manage the sizes I first created the individual lists > based on the size of the files/directories and input them manually into my > config files for each host. For example, HOST1 may have 40 smaller files > to get to the 20GB limit whereas HOST10 may only have 1 file/directory to > get to the limit. > > > > Now I have the problem of trying to find an individual file/directory from > around 18 different HOSTx setups. > > > > Is there an easy way to get/create a listing that would should the HOSTx > and the files/directories that are being backed up under it? I have > thought of trying to write a ‘script’ to traverse the individual HOSTx.pl > files and extract the info – but my scripting is purely of a W10 nature and > even at that is poor and wordy. (Oh for the days of COBOL and PL/1.) > > > > Just wondering if there is something I have missed in the documentation or > in trying to search the forums. Someone must have had this problem before > me. > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > DW > _______________________________________________ > 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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