Jon Forrest wrote:
One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how
all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding
this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to
the commercial backup products.
Don't those products all require a client side agent, at
Les Mikesell wrote:
Jon Forrest wrote:
One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how
all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding
this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to
the commercial backup products.
Don't those products all require
12:56pm, Les Mikesell wrote:
Jon Forrest wrote:
One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how
all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding
this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to
the commercial backup products.
Don't those products all
Jon Forrest wrote:
I think it would theoretically be possible to
get a target directory listing with the transfer methods that backuppc
supports but it wouldn't be trivial.
I've started looking at the source code for BackupPC.
Too bad there aren't more comments. There's obviously
logic
Les Mikesell wrote:
I don't think tar is capable of transferring a directory listing without
the contents of the files. Since it runs over ssh you could run some
other command, but the command isn't guaranteed to exist or to be
permitted by the sshd config at the other end.
If 'tar' is
Jon Forrest wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
I don't think tar is capable of transferring a directory listing without
the contents of the files. Since it runs over ssh you could run some
other command, but the command isn't guaranteed to exist or to be
permitted by the sshd config at the other
Les Stott wrote:
tar -cvf /dev/null
the tar to /dev/null actually doesn't take that long at all, maybe a few
minutes depending on the size.
Gnu tar actually recognizes if stdout is connected to /dev/null (even if
you redirect instead of specifying -f) and doesn't bother to read the
file
Paul Fox wrote:
tar -cvf /dev/null
the tar to /dev/null actually doesn't take that long at all, maybe a few
minutes depending on the size.
Gnu tar actually recognizes if stdout is connected to /dev/null (even if
you redirect instead of specifying -f) and doesn't
