I am struggling to create an archive from the command line.  The desired 
outcome is to emulate the clicking of the "Start Archive" button in the web 
page as this method is working perfectly.  The overall objective is to create 
the archive as a cron job.

>>From /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive
Extract Start
# BackupPC_archive: Archive files for an archive client.
#
# DESCRIPTION
#
#   Usage: BackupPC_archive <user> <archiveclient> <reqFileName>
Extract End

I cannot find the definitions of <user> <archiveclient> <reqFileName> and all 
permutations of my guesses of what might be required have all failed.  Can 
anyone help or indicate where the definitions are listed?

SamK



> 
> From: <samk-01 AT ntlworld DOT com>
> Date: 2008/11/17 Mon AM 11:15:03 GMT
> To: "General list for user discussion,
>       questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>, 
>       "General list for user discussion,
>       questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
> 
> InstallDir on my system = /usr/share/backuppc
> In /usr/share/backuppc/bin are various files including:
> BackupPC_archive  (Note not BackupPC_archiveStart)
> BackupPC_archiveHost
> 
> The on-line docs at Sourceforge do not correspond with my Ubuntu 8.04-Server 
> LTS distribution.
> 
> At the command line, using the full path, both can be started.  From the CGI 
> it appears that BackupPC_archiveHost is started with the following command:
> $Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host 
> $backupnumber $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile *
> 
> Still, it doesn't explain why it it fails to run when scheduled or fails to 
> create a log entry, but works when started manually using the button in the 
> CGI and creates the log entries.
> 
> SamK
> 
> > 
> > From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
> > Date: 2008/11/17 Mon AM 09:45:41 GMT
> > To: "General list for user discussion,
> >     questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
> > 
> > SamK wrote:
> > 
> > > The on-line documentation at Sourceforge mentions creating an  
> > > archive at the command line using BackupPC_archiveStart.  This  
> > > method fails as the system cannot find BackupPC_archiveStart.
> > 
> > The BackupPC_archiveStart binary is probably not in your path. Try  
> > calling it using the full path, e.g. /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/ 
> > BackupPC_archiveStart on our systems.
> > 
> > 
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