Timothy J Massey wrote at about 10:30:18 -0400 on Wednesday, September 28, 2011: > Gerald Brandt <[email protected]> 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 think it would generally be faster to do: find . -name "f<filename>" This still may have a problem in that the f-mangling *also* converts non-printable ascii characters (and also whitespace and /) into %<hex> codes. So, if your filename contains any of those chars then you need to change the search term to be written that way. Also, you need to be careful about incrementals vs. fulls since incrementals will include only the most recently changed files while fulls might not include the latest version if there are subsequent incrementals. You can avoid both of the above problems by using backuppc-fuse as pointed out by another respondent, though it may be slower. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
