Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 14:31:07 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 
2009:
 > On 04/08 08:22 , Boniforti Flavio wrote:
 > > > it's just part of the storage format. the files there are compressed, and
 > > > not in their original form.
 > > 
 > > Ah, well... So I can't copy or access those files when they're synced over?
 > 
 > if they're compressed, you'll need the backuppc tools to uncompress them
 > (unless you implement your own equivalents with perl; which may not be
 > difficult for an experienced perlmonger -- I don't know).

It's not hard to do (i've done it and i'm no perl monk), but you can
just use BackupPC_zcat and pipe the output to wherever you want it.

 > 

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