Hy Les,

> These would be the locations that you told backuppc to back 
> up. If you go to the host's 'edit config' screen and click 
> the Xfer link you would see one or more share names.  Or, 
> browsing the backups, they would the the tops of the trees in 
> the left navigation. (If you only have one you might not 
> realize that there can be more).

Ah, ok! I thought that Xfer could have something to do with that, thanks
for confirming that.

> > Would something like this be OK?
> > 
> > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h polti -n -1 /mnt/USB
> 
> You need to provide the -s argument, and the last argument is 
> a filter to select which files/directories you want to 
> include in the output. 
> The output is written to stdout, so unless you want it on the 
> screen you need to pipe to another program (gzip, dd, 
> split...) or redirect to a file.

OK, so "/bin/gzip .gz" *has to be* there...

> > I was looking at the "original" commandline I posted, and 
> the things 
> > are almost clear:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/split = has to be used only if splitting archives (I don't 
> > need it); polti 36 = hostname and number of backup to archive.
> > 
> > Following part is not clear to me:
> > 
> > /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /mnt/USB *
> > 
> > Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are 
> > the parameter that follow the binary path?
> 
> The arguments to archivehost don't have much to do with 
> BackupPC_tarCreate.  I'm not sure, but I'd guess that those 
> are the path to the gzip program,  a template for how to 
> build multiple filenames (suffix and numeric pattern), a 
> directory to hold them, and the file/dir pattern match 
> (*=everything).  You don't need to worry about those because 
> you'll construct the rest of the pipeline yourself in your 
> scheduled command so you can do whatever you want.

OK, I'll try my best and post here...

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