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On 02/23/2017 04:13 PM, André Tapxure - Soluções Ideais wrote:
> Can you please suggest for me to "trust" in BackupPC (is my first 
> interaction) a method to check that the full backup is reliable?
>
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> ----- Mensagem original -----
> De: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carl.soderstrom AT real-time DOT com>
> Para: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" 
> <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Enviadas: Terça-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2017 10:45:36
> Assunto: Re: [BackupPC-users] Size Difference between source and backup
>
> On 02/21 07:58 , André Tapxure - Soluções Ideais wrote:
>> Hi, there!
>> I did a du -h '--max-depth=1' in the full backup dir and asked for folder 
>> properties in windows server tha is being backed up and saw a 337GB 
>> difference (440GB to 777GB). I noted also that all files in the destination 
>> starts with an 'f'. What that means? Is the backup ok?
>
> The 'f' means that those files are compressed with BackupPC's own
> compression tool. If you try to catenate an ASCII text file which starts
> with an 'f', you'll see that it's compressed.
>
> To uncompress and examine an individual file, use the
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat tool. Something like:
>
> # /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat 
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host.example.tld/1842/f%2f/fetc/fissue
> Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS \n \l
>
>


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