> 
> From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
> Date: 2008/11/20 Thu PM 02:03:39 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:
> 
> > 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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The lack of clarity in my earlier question was probably the result of my 
frustration at the failure to do something that should be easily do-able.

All I want to achieve is
* Emulate the clicking of the Start Archive Button in the BackupPc web 
interface. This is working perfectly satisfactorily via CGI.  It produces 
compressed archives FileName.tar.gz.

* Schedule this to run under cron

* Use the Archive[Pre Post]User commands to to mount a Truecrypt Volume on a 
removable disk to store the archives in an encrypted partition used for 
off-site storage.

Ideally I would like to keep as close as possible to the default installation 
of BackupPC in meeting these goals and thereby keep user-generated scripts to a 
minimum or even eliminated.

I would like to stress that I am not asking that someone else do the work here; 
rather offer assistance and guidance out of my current confusion.


SamK

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