Sam writes: > 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?
BackupPC_archiveStart is hardcoded to have no compression and use a .raw suffix. It's pretty easy to see where to edit it to change that. As Nils' mentioned you can easily compress that file, or use BackupPC_tarCreate and compress its output (after all, BackupPC_archiveStart eventually just runs BackupPC_tarCreate). Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
