Craig Barratt Wrote > > From: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/11/18 Tue PM 09:57:39 GMT > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving > > SamK writes: > > > I am struggling to create an archive from the command line. The desired > > outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web > > page as this method is working perfectly. The overall objective is to > > create the archive as a cron job. > > > > >From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive > > Extract Start > > # BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client. > > # > > # DESCRIPTION > > # > > # Usage: BackupPC_archive <user> <archiveclient> <reqFileName> > > Extract End > > > > I cannot find the definitions of <user> <archiveclient> <reqFileName> and > > all permutations of my guesses of what might be required have all failed. > > Can anyone help or indicate where the definitions are listed? > > BackupPC_archive isn't very easy to use directly: reqFileName is the > path of a file (output from perl's Data::Dumper) with information > about what to archive. > > BackupPC_archiveStart is much easier to use. It creates a reqFile > and then tells the BackupPC server to run the archive. > > Craig >
One of my earlier emails on this topic mentioned that BackupPC_archiveStart was not included in backuppc_3.0.0.-4ubuntu1_all-deb obtained from the main Ubuntu repository. (it is not listed in the .deb package filelist). Having read a warning in the BackupPC documentation not to mix files from different sources I assumed this had been deliberately omitted in favour of BackupPC_archive, and was therefore (mistakenly) attempting to use that file. Is a copy of BackupPC_archiveStart suitable for Ubuntu8.04-Server LTS available anywhere? Les Mikesell Wrote: > If you are going to do it from the command line, why not start with > BackupPC_tarCreate and set up your own pipeline for compress/split or > whatever options you want. This was unsuccessfully attempted, but I do not know why it failed. SamK-01 Wrote: > An archive is successfully created when started from within the web page. > This produces a log-file with the following entry: > Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split home---tom 10 > /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/whole---all_backups * > In a terminal running exactly the same command line as user = backuppc > returns: > Usage: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost tarCreatePath splitPath > parPath host bkupNum compPath fileExt splitSize outLoc parFile share SamK-01 ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
