On 2/9/2012 4:51 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've set up a new backup server, and for the first time I haven't
> disabled compression.  BackupPC is now creating log files in (what it
> is claiming is) .z format.  How do I read these?  I've tried zcat
> ("not in gzip format"), uncompress (no error, but no file), and unzip
> (end of central directory not found).  "file XferLog.0.z" says that
> this file is "data" (which doesn't help...).
>
> So, how do I read these files, and even better:  how do I go back to
> my plaintext logs?
>
> (I *knew* there were great reasons why I have always immediately
> disable compresson on all of my backup servers!  :)  ) 

Backuppc uses a special compression format.  You can read it with the
BackupPC_zcat program.  On my machine, it is located in
/usr/local/BackupPC/bin.

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