Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dirk asked on 29.03.2007 at 05:50:09 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Get a file list
> via command line?]:
>> Dirk wrote:
>>> Holger Parplies wrote:
>>>> Dirk wrote on 18.02.2007 at 09:33:51 [[BackupPC-users] Get a file list via
>>>> command line?]:
>>>> For a filled view including attributes it's probably a bit more
>>>> complicated. If you need that and can wait a few days, I'd be willing to
>>>> hack something together.
>>> That would be great!
>>> I think it is always useful to have some kind of
>>>
>>> lsbackuppc -h HOST -n DUMPNUM -s SHARE PATH...
>>>
>> any news about this issue?
>
> sorry, no, but I haven't forgotten it. I'm currently not finding much time
> for BackupPC stuff. It's not the only thing I promised someone that I
> haven't gotten around to yet :(. The "few days" were a bit optimistic, I
> guess, but you didn't sound as if it was urgent.
>
> Several people have asked about searching for files in backups. I guess that
> could be integrated (maybe as '-f regexp' option), and a '-l' for listing
> file attributes might come in handy too. On the other hand, a BackupPC_find
> approach for searching could equally be used to list all files (with -print
> for names only or -ls for stats). It would be far more powerful, but the
> option parsing sounds rather complicated (unless it can be copied from
> find2perl). There could even be an option '-zexec' for executing a command
> on an uncompressed copy of the file in question. Suggestions welcome.
If you haven't intentionally turned off the 'locate' nightly indexing
update because it is too big you can probably just 'locate filename' and
mentally adjust the name mangling to see where you have copies of what
you want. That will miss anything updated after the night's run, but
its faster than anything else will be.
--
Les Mikesell
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