Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

[Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...>]

Holger Parplies <wb...@pa...> wrote on 05/23/2015 09:29:25 AM:

> for the archives: you don't strictly *need* the free space. You can pipe 
the
> output of BackupPC_tarCreate directly into a 'tar x' and tell tar to 
only
> extract files named '*.pdf', something like
> 
>    BackupPC_tarCreate -h host -n 123 -s /share /path \
>       | tar xf - --wildcards '*.pdf' '*.PDF'

Forget the archives:  I appreciate the tip.  It'd be nice to avoid all the 
I/O to have BackupPC stream all that data just so it can end up in the bit 
bucket, but at least it doesn't end up on my disk again, too!  :)

> This seems to be another good case for using the fuse module. You can 
navigate
> the backup view (or run a 'find', 'rsync', ...) at a relatively low cost 
and
> only need to read/decompress the file data you actually act on - andyou 
don't
> need any intermediate storage space.

I completely forgot about that.  I've already done most of the data so 
far, but that's an excellent suggestion, too.

once again, thank you.

Tim Massey
 
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