Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > SamK wrote: > >> A copy of BackupPC 3.1 has been obtained from the main Ubuntu >> repository and successfully installed on v 8.04-Server. This has >> now provided access to the file BackupPC_archiveStart which I intend >> to use via cron as outlined in the BackupPC documentation. >> >> When executed from the command line this produces an archive >> in .tar.raw format rather than gzip format. I must be going "snow >> blind" on this as I simply cannot figure out what configuration >> entries need to be made in which files to achieve this. I am now >> totally confused and cannot make progress by using the documentation. >> >> Is anyone willing to give me a hand with this? > > What is your question exactly? If you want a gzipped archive then use > gzip to compress the tar archive.
Or what I'd do: don't use BackupPC_archiveStart, but use BackupPC_tarCreate and pipe the result into gzip. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
