Craig Barratt wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 

Nils Breunese wrote
>
>use BackupPC_tarCreate and pipe the result into gzip. 
>

Dale Renton wrote:
>
> Have a look at these for compression :
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=abf696d2-1326-4acc-8cee-374badd63779
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=c3e8b09d-a5c3-4782-93f7-44457dc1f048
>
 
Thanks go to each of you.  Archiving is now working with two residual issues to 
clear up.

QUESTIONS:
01 The format of the command line required by BackupPC_archiveStart is 
<archiveHost> <userName> <hosts>.  Is is possible to specify multiple <hosts> 
without explicitly listing each of them at the command line?  (perhaps a 
wildcard) I have tried an asterisk without success.

02 I would like to conduct actions prior and post creating an archive. 
Specifically mounting a Truecrypt encrypted removable disk.  The following 
command line works exactly as required when executed at the command line as 
user = backuppc but fails when used in archiveHost.pl.
Command line version
/bin/echo password | /usr/bin/truecrypt --text --keyfiles="" 
--protect-hidden=no --password=password --mount /dev/sdd1 
/media/backups-archived

archiveHost.pl version
$Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd} = '/bin/echo password | /usr/bin/truecrypt --text 
--keyfiles="" --protect-hidden=no --password=password --mount /dev/sdd1 
/media/backups-archived';

Is this the correct file in which to list pre/post archive commands?

Is there a syntax flaw in the construction of my $Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd}?

SamK

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