Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

Hi there, On Sun, 7 Aug 2016, Les Mikesell wrote: > You can use a variety of different styles when writing perl. It can > look like C, shell, awk, or ... About fifteen years ago I was contracting on an early Web project for a legal company in Los Angeles with about four million users. We used

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 12:45 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Les Mikesell [2016-08-06 18:19 +0200]: >> Why is it likely that you would want to read backuppc logs on >> systems that don't have backuppc installed. > > Well, I collect all logs to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

also sprach Les Mikesell [2016-08-06 18:19 +0200]: > Why is it likely that you would want to read backuppc logs on > systems that don't have backuppc installed. Well, I collect all logs to a central location, but sure, this isn't the normal usecase. > And why not do it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:17 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 > 01:08 +0200]: >> > Why aren't we just using standard gzip or bzip2 or xz, for which >> > decompressors exist on pretty much every Unix

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 01:08 +0200]: > > Why aren't we just using standard gzip or bzip2 or xz, for which > > decompressors exist on pretty much every Unix system? > I'm pretty sure there is a backuppc package for debian :) Oh yes, sure, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

On 05/08/16 05:33, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello, > > the fact that BackupPC compresses log files using zlib and requires > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat for their uncompression is > a bit of a nuisance, not only when log files are being > sync'd/analysed on a system where there is no

[BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

Hello, the fact that BackupPC compresses log files using zlib and requires /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat for their uncompression is a bit of a nuisance, not only when log files are being sync'd/analysed on a system where there is no BackupPC installed. I also can't find a suitable