I don't know much about windows, but i think this may help
With or without compression, the general idea is that you need to restore
the file first to see it. That said, you may use:
* The web gui (cgi), browse backups, click and save the file. It will be
readable on your disk.
* The web gui (cgi) use restore in the original place or other
* use a command to make the file readable. In my machine is
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat
See BackupPC_zcat at
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#restore_functions
__INSTALLDIR__/bin/BackupPC_zcat
__TOPDIR__/pc/host/5/fc/fcraig/fexample.txt > example.txt
And you can also create tar or zip with a collection of files using the
backuppc cgi (the scripts to do this don't work in my installation).
So, as far as I know,
1- Not really, kind of through the cgi. Save and see it (again, with or
without compression is the same).
1a- Yes (using BackupPC_zcat), unless it is an os dependent file, of course.
1b- After running BackupPC_zcat on the files, or a zip dump, yes. May be
easier to use the cgi.
2- Use restore on the cgi, save the file on disk, ...
3- directories and file listing on the cg, by host/backup, click and save
files?
4- Others will help you there
Guess not what you were hoping for, maybe someone has better ideas. Still,
it is a backup utility, not a ftp server :) But you can dump your backup to
one.
Final thought, use the cgi. If you never saw it, you have to.
Last, I don't know that much about backuppc, so, everybody, please feel free
to correct me, I'll appreciate it.
Luis A. Paulo
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:24 PM, John Hudak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before I install backuppc and rsyncd client on my windoz boxes, I have some
> questions about file recovery using Backuppc.
>
> 1. After files are backed up to my linux server (Debian 5.0), assuming no
> compression, on the Linux box, can I look at the file directories and open
> say a backed up.pdf file using file browser in Debian 5?
>
> 1a - If I can do '1' then presumably I can ssh into the Debian box and
> navigate to the backed up file directory and open up file. True?
> 1b. If I can do '1a' then there would be no problem copying a subset of the
> files to a memory stick, and then copy the files to another windoze machine?
>
> 2. If I can't view files using the file browser as described in '1' above,
> how can I accomplish this?
>
> 3. If the files are compressed, how can I view the backed up directories
> and files?
>
> 4. Are there any words of advice/tricks to know about when installing
> rsyncd on windoz boxes and having the backuppc app easily find it?
>
> Thanks for the input...
> John
>
>
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