On Saturday 18 February 2012 10.18:31 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Dan Johansson <dan.johans...@dmj.nu> wrote: > > I am looking for a way to do an automatic redirected restore. > > At the moment I am playing with an Archive Host and are doing the > > following: > > > > 1) run BackupPC_archiveStart with ArchiveDest set to a local > > directory (at > > the moment /(var/tmp). > > > > 2) When the archive process is finished I create a subdirectory in > > /var/tmp > > and extract the tar-file from step one into this subdirectory. > > > > This approach works but uses a lot of disk space (almost two times) as > > the tar-file from step one must exist together with the extracted data > > for some time (at least until the "tar xvzf" is finished and I can > > delete the tar file). Is there/do you know of any way to "skip" the use > > of a tar file and directly "export/restore" the backup to a > > "redirected" location. With redirected I mean it does not get restored > > to the original host and or location. > > Use the BackupPC_tarCreate command line program and pipe it directly to a > 'tar -xf -' to extract instead of saving the output in a file. Insert ssh > in the pipeline appropriately if you want the restore to happen elsewhere.
Great - that was what I was looking for. Now I have another (related) problem. With BackupPC_archiveStart I get all shares for the host, with BackupPC_tarCreate I have to explicitly name all shares. This puts me in the situation that I have to dynamically figure out all shares for each host. Are there command that does this for me? If not, then I have to write a small perl-script to read the host-config-file. Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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/
