Comments, below ...
On 11/22/24 6:02 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
Hi there,
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024, Norman Goldsteinwrote:
I have a copy of a BackupPC hierarchy from 2019, and wish to extract the
file, fInbox.
What version(s) of BackupPC were used (in 2019, and now)?
I am now using version 4. I don't remember when I switched from 3.
Can you confirm that fInbox is a file and not a directory?
It is a file, so I checked my current thunderbird folder, and it is also
all null bytes. But, my gmail Inbox contains actual data, so I conclude
I have a problem with my mail software, not with BackupPC archives. I
will resolve this offline.
For a BackupPC version 4.x backup hierarchy and assuming that fInbox
is at the top level of a share's directory tree (and is a directory)
I'd probably use the BackupPC_tarCreate command, something like
BackupPC_tarCreate -h hostname -n dumpnumber -s sharename fInbox >
/tmp/Inbox.tar
which will create an archive of the original Inbox tree which can be
extracted using 'tar' or a number of other archive tools e.g. 'atool'.
I don't want to guess what I'd do if BackupPC version 3.x was used to
create the hierarchy because it's a *very* long time since I've done
anything with BackupPC version 3. Others here will be more familiar
with it than I am.
Thanks for the pointers. Will dig some more. Sorry for the false alarm.
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