Tino Schwarze wrote at about 14:55:57 +0100 on Wednesday, March 2, 2011: > Hi Craig, > > thanks for the information. I've got some questions, though... > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:33:13AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > > The next topic is the attribute file format and how backups > > are stored. > > > > In 4.x the only information that appears in a backup tree > > (ie: a single backup stored below $TOPDIR/pc/HOST/NNN) are > > the attribute files, one per directory. > > The downside of this is that I cannot easily peek into a backup on > command line any more. :-( It's been very helpful to quickly figure out > which files have bee backed up (e.g. to determine unneccessarily backed > up stuff). Now I'll lose that capability and have to resort to web page > clicking... or us that FUSE FS part of the release?
I'm a big fan of the backuppc fuse filesystem -- I mean I find it just awesome since it converts incrementals seamlessly to fulls and includes all the attrib file information. And since they look like real files you have the full power of the *nix command line and utilities available. I also find it to be not only more flexible but significantly faster than the web interface. It would be nice to see the fuse filesystem interface be officially integrated into backuppc 4.x. The version I am using was by the author's admission (I believe) a non-optimized implementation so presumably there is room to improve on it in terms of efficiency and maybe even capabilities. While I know that fusefs may not be available on all systems, I imagine that most users are running versions of *nix that would support it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
