I greatly appreciate the information I looked and the data directory on the 
server has folders but no files best I can tell. I am new to Linux and 
BackupPC.  This is a OpenSuse11 install that I did not setup.  I am just trying 
to make it work.  I am thinking about re-loading the server and staring all 
over.

Thanks again.

Jacob O. Greer

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome AT real-time DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:42 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] empty files

On 12/06 08:26 , Greer, Jacob - District Tech wrote:
> How would I check the only thing I see from the webpage is a file size zero 
> it does not tell me compressed or un-compressed?

On a debian or ubuntu system the data is held in /var/lib/backuppc/. Under that 
directory, the pool/ directory has the hashes of the uncompressed data, the 
cpool/ directory has the compressed data.

I'm guessing you're not on a Debian system (or at least you didn't install from 
a debian package), so I don't know where yours might be. I believe by default 
the data will be compressed, so If you don't explicitly specify in the 
configuration file for that host (or change the default value in
config.pl) that you want your data uncompressed, it's probably compressed.

For instance, I have a file /etc/backuppc/localhost.pl with the following entry 
in it (among others):

# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered without # 
backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server, # in order to recover your 
backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;


So all the backups of files from the BackupPC server itself, are kept in
/var/lib/backuppc/pool. (Of course they're also linked to
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost so they can be found by name as well). (In
case you're wondering, I put the BackupPC data pool on its own disk so if
the OS disk dies the backups are likely to still be good, and if the data
disk dies there is the OS disk there to help recover it).

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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