Hi Craig,
Every time people ask about referencing file contents or their
attribs, I can't help but think how the backuppc-fuse is such an
underutilized asset.
That utility makes it so easy and natural to browse backups using
built-in file system commands -- whether via CLI or GUI.
As a
26, 2020 12:25:46 PM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incomplete backups?
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This is normal. In 4.x just an attrib file captures all the
This is normal. In 4.x just an attrib file captures all the information
about which files are in that directory, with all their metadata (size,
modes, links, xattrs etc). As you note, the file is actually empty and all
that matters is the md5 digest in its name. That refers to the actual
I am building a new backuppc server to replace a aging one that someone else
setup. The old one is 3.31 and i am using the latest 4.4.0. I have it making
backups but they seem extremely small since many of the backups are around a
terabyte in size. I noticed this as i was comparing a smaller
