Thanks Craig.
That being said, the reason I noticed it, is that I was actually
looking to find or write a CLI-type BackupPC_rsyncRestore that could
take a short list of parameters and allow for a flexible rsync restore
-- that would be more flexible and more "scriptable" than navigating
the web interface.
Something that would take:
-h [host]
-s [share]
-n [backup]
List of files or the ability to read in a list of files from a file
destination (relative to which files would be restored)
Optional backup destination (instead of the default share root)
Potentially even the ability to restore to a different host.
Basically something that would make it easy to extract or restore a
backup or more often subset of a backup (whether a single file or
directory or a collection thereof) and restore it to an arbitrary
place on the original server (or maybe even on another server).
I actually find that I currently am more likely to either hack
something directly calling rsync_bpc (which is messy, especially
getting the merges right)) or to just rsync to a backuppc fuse
filesystem (but ACLs are not well treated and I don't fully trust it's
robustness). And I rarely use the web interface as it is painful,
slow, and less powerful than the world of CLI, regex, scripting, etc.
At least start with something robust and simple...
I don't see a need for a standalone BackupPC_rsyncBackup since
BackupPC_dump (plus a per-host config file) does pretty much all you
need to do...
(though I have been playing with doing backups via naked rsync_bpc
as part of my troubleshooting but it messes up pool reference counts
unless you use a separate TopDir sandbox :) )
Jeff
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote at about 20:47:45 -0800 on Tuesday,
January 25, 2022:
> The 2nd sentence is completely wrong. There have never been standalone
> programs BackupPC_rsyncBackup and BackupPC_rsyncRestore. Looks like it's
> been there since the very early days of 4.0.0.
>
> I just committed a change to git to remove it.
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 6:04 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
>
> > The "Description" string in Rsync.pm for v4.4.0 says:
> >
> > # DESCRIPTION
> > #
> > # This library defines a BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync class for managing
> > # the rsync-based transport of backup data from/to the client.
> > # After generating the rsync arguments, it calls BackupPC_rsyncBackup
> > # or BackupPC_rsyncRestore to actually do the backup or restore.
> > #
> >
> > However, other than the above references in the description, I can't
> > find any files or routines in the backuppc distribution with those
> > names...
> >
> > Is this an error in the description or am I missing something?
> >
> >
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