Timothy J Massey wrote at about 09:41:53 -0500 on Friday, February 10, 2012:
 > 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?

Seems trivial to me (plus or minus some buffering delay)...

tail -n +0 -f /path/to/XferLog.Z | BackupPC_zcat

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