Hello,
BackupPC seems a great tool.
The only - main - drawback for me is the file name mangling on (mainly
rsync) backups (backuppc adds an f to every folder of file backuped).
I've read the few information about that (that it wasn't activated on old
versions, and why it has been), but i really
Serge SIMON wrote at about 19:01:54 +0200 on Monday, September 24, 2012:
Hello,
BackupPC seems a great tool.
The only - main - drawback for me is the file name mangling on (mainly
rsync) backups (backuppc adds an f to every folder of file backuped).
I've read the few information
The point is that it barely miss nothing to have a browsable uncompressed
rsynced backup folder for people willing to retrieve files from that
directly.
It's the default rsync behavior.
I'm pretty sure every point you are presenting could be dealt in another
way.
Attrib files could have a really
I believe there is a fuse filesystem that gives you a filesystem level view of
unmangled filenames for backup PC trees.
For the rest of us, making the backup PC tree directly browsable by rsync
really does not have much value. For the rest of us, making a tar or zip
restore is sufficient, and
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Serge SIMON serge.si...@gmail.com wrote:
The point is that it barely miss nothing to have a browsable uncompressed
rsynced backup folder for people willing to retrieve files from that
directly.
It's the default rsync behavior.
You can use rsync directly if
I believe there is a fuse filesystem that gives you a filesystem level
view of unmangled filenames for backup PC trees.
That would do the trick.
I'll investiage it, thanks for the clue (
https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl - other
users had the same need than mine,
