Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:

> 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.

Or what I'd do: don't use BackupPC_archiveStart, but use  
BackupPC_tarCreate and pipe the result into gzip.

Nils Breunese.

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