Tim Connors wrote at about 11:15:31 +1000 on Thursday, September 29, 2011:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
> > Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de> wrote on 09/28/2011 11:20:57
> > AM:
> >
> > > > I'm sure someone with more shell-fu will give you a much better
> > command
> > > > line (and I look forward to learning something!).
> > >
> > > Here you are:
> > >
> > > find <path_where_to_start> -iname <string_to_search>
> ...
> > > Using find you will realize that its rather slow and has your disk
> > rattling
> > > away. Better to use the indexing services, for example locate:
> > >
> > > locate <string_to_search>
> >
> > Yeah, that's great if you update the locate database (as you mention). On
> > a backup server, with millions of files and lots of work to do pretty much
> > around the clock? That's one of the first things I disable! So no
> > locate.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> When I want to search for a file (half the time I don't even know what
> machine or from what time period, so I have to search the entire pool), I
> look at the mounted backuppcfs fuse filesystem (I mount onto /snapshots):
> https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl
I too would recommend backuppc-fuse - though the one disadvantage is
that it is a lot slower than a native search through the pc tree since
the directories need to be reconstructed from the relevant partials &
fulls (which is a *good* thing but slow).
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