Thanks for the feedback!
To clarify:the script actually uses |BackupPC_ls|under the hood!It’s
designed as an automation wrapper around it.
While |BackupPC_ls|works great for inspecting a specific
snapshot,running it by hand has a few pain points when you don't know
where or when a file lived:
*
*Scope:*|BackupPC_ls|requires you to specify a single host (|-h|)
and a single backup run (|-n|).If you have 10 hosts with 30
historical backups each,you would have to run it hundreds of times
manually.
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*Automation:*The wrapper queries |pc/<host>/backups|to automatically
walk through all historical snapshots (|--all|),can sweep across all
hosts at once (|all|),and prefixes matches with the host name and
backup number so you immediately know where to restore from.
I'll update the GitHub README to make that distinction much clearer.
Adding it to the BackupPC Wiki is a great idea—I'll get a page/link
added there so others running into the same issue can find it
easily.Thanks for pointing me in that direction!
On 11/7/26 7:06 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
Hi there,
On Sat, 7 Nov 2026, Bill Fahrenkrug wrote:
I have been using BackupPC for 10+ years and have gone though many
workstations. I don't restore all of my documents or other files to
my new workstation, I normally want to start with a clean slate. But
sometimes I need to find that one file I should have. Using the the
web interface and clicking through all the different folders looking
for a file was painful to say the least.
Agreed the Web interface isn't great for doing this sort of thing. :/
I searched the list many times and didn't find a good solution.
Doesn't the BackupPC_ls script help with what you need to do?
So I created a bash script to find files using regex pattern and
thought I would share.
It's on Git Hub. the README includes how to install and some examples.
https://github.com/wfahren/BackupPC_find_file
It might be useful to contrast your script with BAckupPC_ls, and maybe
put your script in the BackupPC Wiki:
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki
That's probably the best place to collect itches that need a scratch.
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