Sam writes:

> 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?

BackupPC_archiveStart is hardcoded to have no compression and use
a .raw suffix.  It's pretty easy to see where to edit it to change
that.  As Nils' mentioned you can easily compress that file, or
use BackupPC_tarCreate and compress its output (after all,
BackupPC_archiveStart eventually just runs BackupPC_tarCreate).

Craig

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