Mike Bydalek wrote at about 08:32:06 -0700 on Monday, September 13, 2010:
 > zcat <file> or you can gunzip <file>
 > 
That won't work - the files are not compressed you gzip...
As others have mentioned, use BackupPC_zcat


 > Regards,
 > Mike
 > 
 > On Sep 13, 2010, at 1:20 AM, IvyAlice <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT 
 > com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Hello everybody,
 > > 
 > > I got some problems with backuppc and I want to read the XferLOG.z file.
 > > I can't read it either with vim or nano and I can't extract the file with 
 > > uncompress, gunzi,zcat or tar (it tells it's not a tar file) 
 > > 
 > > I search on google and on this forum but I didn't find the solution.
 > > 
 > > Do you know how can I read those log files ? 
 > > 
 > > Best regards, 
 > > 
 > > Ivy
 > > 
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