On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:52:30PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> John Rouillard wrote at about 21:01:53 +0000 on Thursday, March 3, 2011:
> > We run is an automatic build server and rely on backups to recover
> > prior builds of software as a last fallback to recover from a bad
> > software build/install. Without actual files located under the pc tree
> > is there a way to search (cf. gnu locate or find) for a file matching
> > a particular regular expressions (e.g. python-orif.*.rpm) so I can go
> > to that backup and restore the file?
>
> That's an interesting point -- a lot of us have gotten used to doing
> f-mangled searches and/or wild-card listings of backups.
>
> Fuse filesystem search would be relatively slow since it would still
> need to read all the attrib files and rebuild deltas. Similarly, for
> any routine that rebuilds based on the atrrib files.
Well fuse filesystem isn't that great if you are running backuppc on
solaris or *bsd so you can use zfs. I think netbsd supports it and I
know there was some opensolaris support for fuse, but I still consider
fuse on solaris not ready for production use.
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-- rouilj
John Rouillard System Administrator
Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111
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