Craig Barratt wrote:
> Pramathesh writes:
>
>   
>> The documentation on the backuppc mentions that "old unmangled file
>> names are still supported by the CGI interace". However, I have not been
>> able to figure out how and where this option can be set.
>>     
>
> What that means is backups taken with very old versions of BackupPC
> (when file mangling was off or not implemented, prior to 1.4.0) will
> still be displayed correctly in the CGI interface.
>
> Craig
>
>   

Thanks. That clarifies it.

The reason why I asked this question in the first place - I am currently 
using backuppc to backup to an external hard drive. The drive is 
attached to a file/print server (Ubunut 8.04) which runs samba+cups 
*and* also backuppc.

If the server crashes, how do I get to the files in the external drive? 
I mean, how do I unmangle the file names to quickly restore the files to 
some other machine so that work goes on before I get to repair the 
server/ get another one?

Maybe there isn't a way except to keep the servers separate?

Regards
Pramathesh



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