On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:01:01 +0200, "Antonio Ramos Recoder (MONTREL S.
A.)" <antonio.ramos AT montrel DOT es> wrote:
> Hi, i am a new user. I just make a archive backup because i like
> to write it in a dvd. My question is: can i read de archive dvd with
> backuppc cgi? and how a can read it?.

I think the short answer is "No - you can't read it with the cgi" and the
long answer is: you don't want to, anyway.


Backuppc uses an internal "pool" of files to make all the backed-up data
areas for the backed-up clients viewable from the cgi and restorable from
cgi and command line utils. These files are compressed and name-mangled
making them not suitable for a "bare-metal" restore[1].

The purpose of a archive is to create raw tarballs from files in the pool
which represent the real state of files on the backed-up client at the time
of backup. These tarballs are readable from standard GNU utils and _are_
suitable for restoring files without the help of backuppc.

Hence - you should never need to browse files on an archive -- the files
on an archive are merely a copy (in GNU tar format) of a particular backup
in the pool that *IS* browsable from the cgi.

-Josh

[1] - okay, not _truely_ bare-metal as the OS must be installed, but the
point is backuppc isn't required.

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