Hello again,
On Sun, 13 Jul 2025, Dave Bachmann wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand how I would know which digests are associated
with a file that I was searching for. This, for example, is a typical result:
$ ./BackupPC_zcat /srv/backuppc/cpool/aa/aa/abaa09668efeb993980a19a1f83e52ad
VSS
Detector.so???????? ???>%???=??{~??$
I assume that this is one chunk of a file named Detector.so, but ...
I was always told that 'assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'. :)
No, it isn't one chunk. It's the content of the whole file (and its
name very likely isn't 'Detector.so').
clearly not the way to find and recreate all of the chunks of that file.
No need for anything like that. The files are not stored in chunks,
they're stored whole, but usually (hopefully) in a compressed form as
you've seen.
To repeat, what I *think* I need to do is to recreate the pool from
the cpool as the first step in order to be able to find a file
named, for example, "/home/common/data/tunes/A/Allman
Brothers/Allman Brothers Band/Dreams.mp3" on a specific host. Is
there a BackupPC_? script/function/setting/whatever to do that?
Well if you put it like that ... to repeat:
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, G.W. Haywood wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Dave Bachmann wrote:
I am trying to see if I can recover a file that may have been
deleted years ago and *may* be on a very old backup disk. ...
...
Have you tried using the 'BackupPC_ls' script?
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You could do worse than read the V4 documentation, particularly the
part which begins "Here is a more detailed discussion:". :)
Much thanx for your continued help!
You're very welcome. In these exchanges I often learn as much as - if
not more than - the person I'm helping.
--
73,
Ged.
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