[BackupPC-users] Re: search across backed-up machines?

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

On 15 Jul 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is there any reasonably fast way to find a file if it exists on
> any of the backup runs from any machine?  That is, you know
> the filename but don't know where it was stored.

A low-tech, but usually effective, solution would be to jump onto a
shell account on that machine and run the command 'locate f<filename>'

That should show you the backup up version of in anywhere on the system;
BackupPC prepends the 'f' to the name internally...

         Daniel
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