Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-15 Thread Dave Bachmann
, 2025 06:16 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Adam Goryachev Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups On 14/7/2025 07:45, Dave Bachmann wrote: It's obvious that I didn't fully understand how to use BackupPC_ls and had moved on to try other techniques. I ha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-15 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
*Sent:* Sunday, July 13, 2025 06:15 *To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups 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 t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-13 Thread Dave Bachmann
ge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups 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: >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-13 Thread G.W. Haywood
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 V

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-12 Thread Dave Bachmann
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups Hi there, On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Dave Bachmann wrote: > Any thoughts how I can access the data which surely seems to be > there in one form or another? You can use BackupPC_zcat - just give it t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-11 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Dave Bachmann wrote: Any thoughts how I can access the data which surely seems to be there in one form or another? You can use BackupPC_zcat - just give it the digest directly. For example to cat a more or less random file here, logged in as the backuppc user:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-10 Thread Dave Bachmann
.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups Hi there, 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. The > backups were done with a v3 vers

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem accessing v3 backups

2025-07-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, 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. The backups were done with a v3 version of BackupPC and I've done what I thought was required to make that disk usable but