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Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLog.z : How do I read this thing?

2012-02-10 09:43:27
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLog.z : How do I read this thing?
From: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:41:53 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 02/10/2012 01:06:54 AM:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote:

> >
> > 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.

>
>
> I love BackupPC, but that is the *dumbest* thing *ever*.  (Sorry,
> Craig!  :)  ).
>
> And even if you for some reason thought that was a *brilliant* idea,
> why wouldn't you change the extension?  Would bpz be so hard?  :)

>
> Most people would read them by clicking on the links in the web
> interface and not know/care whether there was an extension or not.

Touche.  But doesn't make this any smarter than it was...

I usually monitor backups (especially when I've just created a new guest to back up or when I'm having problems) by "tail -f /path/to/XferLog".  I can't do that with these compressed log files (or, I can't figure out how to, anyway).

GUI's are great and all (and I use BackupPC's a *lot*), but it would be nice to not have them break the command line, too!  :(

Or, at least, outsmart me.  Does someone have a way to simulate a "tail -f" with the compressed logs?

Tim Massey
 
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