> > From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/11/20 Thu PM 02:03:39 GMT > To: "General list for user discussion, > questions and support" <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving > > 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. > > 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/ >
The lack of clarity in my earlier question was probably the result of my frustration at the failure to do something that should be easily do-able. All I want to achieve is * Emulate the clicking of the Start Archive Button in the BackupPc web interface. This is working perfectly satisfactorily via CGI. It produces compressed archives FileName.tar.gz. * Schedule this to run under cron * Use the Archive[Pre Post]User commands to to mount a Truecrypt Volume on a removable disk to store the archives in an encrypted partition used for off-site storage. Ideally I would like to keep as close as possible to the default installation of BackupPC in meeting these goals and thereby keep user-generated scripts to a minimum or even eliminated. I would like to stress that I am not asking that someone else do the work here; rather offer assistance and guidance out of my current confusion. SamK ----------------------------------------- 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/
