Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

2015-05-23 Thread Timothy J Massey
Holger Parplies wrote on 05/23/2015 09:29:25 AM: > for the archives: you don't strictly *need* the free space. You can pipe the > output of BackupPC_tarCreate directly into a 'tar x' and tell tar to only > extract files named '*.pdf', something like > >BackupPC_tarCreate -h host -n 123 -s

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

2015-05-23 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-23 08:40:21 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of?files]: > [...] > In this instance, I was able to come up with enough free space to be able > to do the complete restore and then grab the data I needed from that. for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

2015-05-23 Thread Timothy J Massey
Thank you very much for the confirmation that I'm not crazy and you can't do wildcards with BackupPC_tarCreate. In this instance, I was able to come up with enough free space to be able to do the complete restore and then grab the data I needed from that. But thank you very much for your code: I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with multiple restores

2015-05-23 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-05-22 11:53:10 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with multiple restores]: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Andy Taylor wrote: > > Thank you for the advice Les. I compiled rsync 2.6.9 and tried a restore > > with it. It seems to hang now once it's got past the la

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

2015-05-23 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Timothy J Massey wrote on 2015-05-22 20:40:52 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of?files]: > Les Mikesell wrote on 05/22/2015 04:24:56 PM: > > > > What am I missing? How do I get BackupPC_tarCreate to create a > > > tar file that contains all PDF's sto