Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate with only certain types of files

Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote on 05/23/2015 09:29:25 AM: > for the archives: you don't strictly *need* the free space. You can pipe the > output of BackupPC_tarCreate directly into a 'tar x' and tell tar to only > extract files named '*.pdf', something like > > BackupPC_tarCreate -h host -n 123 -s /share /path \ > | tar xf - --wildcards '*.pdf' '*.PDF'

Forget the archives: I appreciate the tip. It'd be nice to avoid all the I/O to have BackupPC stream all that data just so it can end up in the bit bucket, but at least it doesn't end up on my disk again, too! :)
> This seems to be another good case for using the fuse module. You can navigate > the backup view (or run a 'find', 'rsync', ...) at a relatively low cost and > only need to read/decompress the file data you actually act on - andyou don't > need any intermediate storage space.
I completely forgot about that. I've already done most of the data so far, but that's an excellent suggestion, too.

once again, thank you.

Tim Massey


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