BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and empty directories!

2011-03-04 04:59:13
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and empty directories!
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:56:58 +0000
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my
> part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
> 
> I guess the best way to describe it would be a "dry run" restore mode.
> Something where I could run a full or partial restore  and exercise
> the mechanism on the backuppc server, while not actually moving the
> files. Have it go through all the motions, including putting a list of
> files in the final report.

That can be done now. Just add -n to RsyncRestoreArgs. Presumably
something similiar can be done for SMB, Tar, etc.

Regards,
Tyler

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