Re: [BackupPC-users] Searching for a command line tool
On 02/23 04:47 , Jason Hughes wrote: I suddenly had an urge to do some work on a particular configuration file and wanted to determine all the changes that had occurred to it over the lifetime of its backups. your thought is a good one; that there are multiple revisions of a file available, so a tool could be written to do what you ask. however, keep in mind that this would be a poor second cousin to a real revision control system. (bzr is very good and easy to use). - backuppc operates on a fixed time schedule, vs. on an as-needed schedule. So you might miss a revision that has expired from the backup pool, or miss the earliest revisions of several done during one day. (On the upside, this does mean that revisions do get backed up automatically and don't require human intervention). - history of revisions doesn't go back as far (not that this matters much of the time when controlling config files for admin purposes; but sometimes the last change was months ago and you didn't notice the brokenness until now). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Searching for a command line tool
Hey all, I suddenly had an urge to do some work on a particular configuration file and wanted to determine all the changes that had occurred to it over the lifetime of its backups. Is there a simple command line tool that shows all the revisions that have been transferred to my pool, either per-pc or globally, based on the fully qualified filename? Basically, I'm looking for a quick way to find the filenames and/or backup numbers I should use to get at all versions of a particular file. Any ideas? Thanks, JH - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Searching for a command line tool
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:47 -0600, Jason Hughes wrote: Hey all, I suddenly had an urge to do some work on a particular configuration file and wanted to determine all the changes that had occurred to it over the lifetime of its backups. Is there a simple command line tool that shows all the revisions that have been transferred to my pool, either per-pc or globally, based on the fully qualified filename? Basically, I'm looking for a quick way to find the filenames and/or backup numbers I should use to get at all versions of a particular file. Any ideas? Thanks, JH how 'bout a commandline browser? something like: links http://BACKUPHOST/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=dirHistoryhost=HOSTshare=SHAREdir=PATH; - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Searching for a command line tool
Jeff Schmidt wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:47 -0600, Jason Hughes wrote: Basically, I'm looking for a quick way to find the filenames and/or backup numbers I should use to get at all versions of a particular file. how 'bout a commandline browser? something like: links http://BACKUPHOST/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=dirHistoryhost=HOSTshare=SHAREdir=PATH; Interesting, I hadn't really considered that approach. With a little parsing it could be done. It would be nicer if a simple suite of command line tools existed for managing and scripting the backup pool, but the www interface could be coerced to do the right thing. Thanks, JH - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
