SamK wrote:

> A copy of BackupPC 3.1 has been obtained from the main Ubuntu  
> repository and successfully installed on v 8.04-Server.  This has  
> now provided access to the file BackupPC_archiveStart which I intend  
> to use via cron as outlined in the BackupPC documentation.
>
> When executed from the command line this produces an archive  
> in .tar.raw format rather than gzip format.  I must be going "snow  
> blind" on this as I simply cannot figure out what configuration  
> entries need to be made in which files to achieve this.  I am now  
> totally confused and cannot make progress by using the documentation.
>
> Is anyone willing to give me a hand with this?

What is your question exactly? If you want a gzipped archive then use  
gzip to compress the tar archive.

Nils Breunese.

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