On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM Paul Fox <p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:

> Matthew Pounsett wrote:
>  >    Incidentally, what do people normally use to read compressed
> BackupPC log
>  >    files?  The docs say they're compressed with zlib, and so does
>  >    /usr/bin/file, but gzip can't read them.
>  >    Back in the day 'uncompress' probably would have done it (although
> that
>  >    would be .Z, not .z), but uncompress seems to just be a link to gzip
> now,
>  >    at least on Debian.  It took some searching but I eventually found
>  >    zlib-flate which can do it ... but this seems like a rather obscure
> tool.
>
>

> # sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat LOG.0.z
>

Ah, excellent.  Thanks!
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