From: Les M. <le...@fu...> - 2005-03-31 13:37:28
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On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 04:36, Christian H=C3=B6fing wrote: > I want to use backuppc's archive method to split my backups into 650MB=20 > files. Normally I see backups in the webinterface and can restore them,= =20 > but what's about archives? When I want to create them, I can choose one= =20 > of the backupped servers and start archiving. This produces=20 > xxxxxxx.tar.gz.aa > xxxxxxx.tar.gz.ab > and so on. > Now I want to restore this but it seems, that "BackupPC_tarExtract=20 > client share complevel" doesn't do anything. > I have found nothing about it in google, so somebody can give me a hint= ? The point of archiving is to be able to remove the copies from the backuppc system. It is a compressed tar file split into the chunk size you requested. You only need standard system tools to restore them - just cat/append them back together and feed to tar: cat *.tar.gz.* | tar -zxpvf - Or, if they are on separate CDs and you don't have room to copy them all in you could write a wrapper script that prompts for each, then cat's the contents into the stream. If you are going to keep them on the backuppc server it would be better to change the policy on how long to keep the normal backups instead of making an archive. --=20 Les Mikesell le...@fu... |