On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:44:47AM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote:

> I'm looking for a way of extract details of backuppc jobs so that I
> can parse them and produce some graphs of usage and general activity.
> 
> The second part I am happy doing, however getting hold of the data is being a 
> bit more of a challenge.
> 
> I've tried my hand at some PHP DOM scrapping to pull the data from the web 
> interface, however this gets quite messy, and means learning a intermediate 
> step to achieve my goal. What I'm really looking for is a way of getting this 
> kind of information straight from the command line.
> 
> I haven't yet found a way of doing this though, so I'm asking for ideas. The 
> other option I thought of was to pull the data from the backuppc data files 
> directly, however I don't have a clue where to start with that idea!

What data are you interested in, exactly?

You might want to look at the backups file in each host's directory.

HTH,

Tino.

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