Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Best method to backup Macintosh?

[Matthew R. <pa...@ni...>]

Daniel Pittman wrote:

>On 21 Sep 2004, Lorrin Nelson wrote:
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>>On 9/21/2004 12:27 AM, Matthew Ross wrote:
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Well, actualy, this wasn't me...

>>Someone with a deeper understanding of BackupPC can correct me if I'm 
>>wrong, but I believe BackupPC needs to have the file in an uncompressed
>>form on the *server*. 
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>Not quite...
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>>That rules out Ditto, RsyncX, hfstar, and hfspax.
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>...it rules them out until someone writes the code to decode and unpack
>those formats, then integrates it into BackupPC.
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Ditto supports uncompressed, CPIO and PKZIP compression format for it's 
file transfers... I'm getting closer to making it work with BackupPC 
every time I sit down for a few minutes and fiddle with it...

I am also working with xtar now... Thus far, no luck... hfstar is my 
next attempt.

Doesn't BackupPC normaly use TAR to copy the files, but does the 
compression in a seperate step? When the files are transfered, are the 
tar'ed "per file" or are they lumped into one large tarball? knowing 
these things would help me understand how I'm supposed to make ditto 
behave...

>      Daniel
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Thanks for all the help guys.

--Matt