Hy Les, > These would be the locations that you told backuppc to back > up. If you go to the host's 'edit config' screen and click > the Xfer link you would see one or more share names. Or, > browsing the backups, they would the the tops of the trees in > the left navigation. (If you only have one you might not > realize that there can be more).
Ah, ok! I thought that Xfer could have something to do with that, thanks for confirming that. > > Would something like this be OK? > > > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h polti -n -1 /mnt/USB > > You need to provide the -s argument, and the last argument is > a filter to select which files/directories you want to > include in the output. > The output is written to stdout, so unless you want it on the > screen you need to pipe to another program (gzip, dd, > split...) or redirect to a file. OK, so "/bin/gzip .gz" *has to be* there... > > I was looking at the "original" commandline I posted, and > the things > > are almost clear: > > > > /usr/bin/split = has to be used only if splitting archives (I don't > > need it); polti 36 = hostname and number of backup to archive. > > > > Following part is not clear to me: > > > > /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /mnt/USB * > > > > Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are > > the parameter that follow the binary path? > > The arguments to archivehost don't have much to do with > BackupPC_tarCreate. I'm not sure, but I'd guess that those > are the path to the gzip program, a template for how to > build multiple filenames (suffix and numeric pattern), a > directory to hold them, and the file/dir pattern match > (*=everything). You don't need to worry about those because > you'll construct the rest of the pipeline yourself in your > scheduled command so you can do whatever you want. OK, I'll try my best and post here... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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/
