On Thu, Jul 23, 2026, at 6:53 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, May 5, 2026, at 12:09 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>>> > > 'BackupPC_ls' lets you list the files in any directory from any backup
>>
>> > Question: I have to pass three options to BackupPC-ls. Hostname is
>> > easy. I believe Sharename is easy since I use rsync and that is
>> > just the directory name, although actually, I don't know for sure
>> > what directory I specified. Then there is backup number. I have no
>> > idea how to get this.
>> >
>> > I poked around some, but came up empty. Any suggestions?
>
> If you look in the BackupPC data directory hierarchy (the place where
> the pool is stored, very often somewhere like /var/lib/BackupPC/) you
> will find a directory .../pc/ that contains a directory for each host
> that you're backing up. In each host directory there are directories
> whose names are entirely made up of digits. Those are backup numbers.
> You can tell when they were made from the timestamps. Each directory
> N should have a corresponding file XferLOG.N.z which is the BackupPC
> transfer log that was made while the backup was performed.
>
> The backup numbers are also shown in the GUI interface:
> .../BackupPC_Admin?host=hostname
>
> Does this answer the question or did I miss something?
>
I have recreated my backups from scratch without referring to my old config.pl
I was never able to recover the old localhost /etc files.
I was able to identify the backup numbers based on your suggestions. But got
stuck on the sharename.
When I ran (as backuppc)
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_ls -h localhost -n 0 -s /etc
It just gave me usage instructions. I tried putting the sharename in single
quotes, too but that didn't work. I am sure that is the sharename for the
default localhost backup, as that is what it is in my new installation (using
tar).
So not critical since I have most things working, but I never like to leave
myself stumped.
Thanks.
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