On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:43:40PM +0200, Hendrik Friedel wrote:

> I moved my BackupPC Storage area to a new HDD. I yet need to complete the
> BackuppcTar stuff to set up everything correctly as explained in the wiki.
> So, BackupPC is not running at the moment.
> 
> But I need to restore a particular file now. Can I simply copy it from the
> Storage Area, or is it compressed etc? How can I restore the file manually?

If you've got your pc/###/ directory setup completed, you may use
BackupPC_tarCreate to create a tar of a particular host's backup.
Alternatively, BackupPC_zcat might suffice if you're just after that one
file and you don't care about restoring file attributes etc.

You'd do something like this
cd backuppc/pc/123/.../fsomedir/
BackupPC_zcat fsomefile > /tmp/somefile

HTH,

Tino.

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