On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I need to restore all PDF files from a particular backup share.  It's 30,000 
> files scattered around thousands of locations.  So, I was hoping to use 
> BackupPC_tarCreate to do it.  But I'm striking out.
>
> This works:
>
> ./BackupPC_tarCreate -l -h server -n 918 -s E "/Shares/Shared"
>
> But this does not:
>
> ./BackupPC_tarCreate -l -h server -n 918 -s E "/Shares/Shared/*.pdf"
>
>
> What am I missing?  How do I get BackupPC_tarCreate to create a tar file that 
> contains all PDF's stored in that path?
>
> Thank you very much for any support you can give me.  I've tried different 
> escapings/not-escapings etc to be able to achieve this and I'm out of ideas!  
> :)
>

Can't help with BackupPC_tarCreate's wildcard concepts but at the
expense of a lot of overhead you could let backuppc generate a tar of
the whole top-level directory (like your first command above) and
specify the '*.pdf' selection to the extracting tar to get what you
want.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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