BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual restore

2014-05-06 03:04:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual restore
From: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 06:44:39 +0000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
> Sent: den 5 maj 2014 21:00
> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual restore
> 
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Carlos Galeano <cgaleano AT logise.com DOT 
> gt>
> wrote:
> >
> > I’m Using the command backuppc_tarCreate to manually restore some
> backups,
> > it Works fine but i want to know if with this command can create several
> > files and not only one big file.
> >
> 
> The tar image is going to be generated as one big stream, but since
> you are working with the command line you could pipe through gzip and
> split (-b) if you would like to have it split into a set of smaller
> files for easier transport.   You would then have to reconstruct the
> original stream by zcat'ing the parts back together for tar to
> eventually extract the original files.

Speaking of which, is there any temporary file created somewhere when restoring 
using the zip-method?

I'm thinking of a situation when the temp-file is so big it fills up e.g. / and 
fails silently, and you won't notice it because you're using the web-GUI.

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//Sorin

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