Hi Tim,
That's basically what I did, but I have a couple of BackupPC users that have no
clue about command line stuff, so I was hoping for a BackupPC web based
solution.
Gerald
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> From: "Timothy J Massey" <tmas...@obscorp.com>
> To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support"
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:30:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for File
> Gerald Brandt <g...@majentis.com> wrote on 09/28/2011 10:15:12 AM:
> > I need to search for a specific file on a host, via backuppc. Is
> > there a way to search a host backup, so I don't have to manually go
> > through all directories via the web interface?
> The easiest, most direct way of doing that would be:
> cd /path/to/host/pc/directory
> find . | grep "f<filename>"
> I'm sure someone with more shell-fu will give you a much better
> command line (and I look forward to learning something!). I'm sure
> there's a way to do it simply with the find command alone, but I've
> had limited success trying to limit the find command to find
> specific files. For me, it's easier to use grep as above. My way
> will work, if a bit slowly: there's lots of files in there...
> Don't forget the leading f in the filename: BackupPC puts an f in
> front of every filename in the directory structure.
> Tim Massey
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