Re: Restore backuppc installation (localhost) from existing backuppc backups

Hi there,

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, backuppc@sundquist... wrote:

> Yes, it has been over two months ...

Don't worry about it. :)

> I have followed the instruction up to here.  Now...

On Tue, May 5, 2026, at 12:09 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote:

> > 'BackupPC_ls' lets you list the files in any directory from any backup

> Question: I have to pass three options to BackupPC-ls.  Hostname is
> easy.  I believe Sharename is easy since I use rsync and that is
> just the directory name, although actually, I don't know for sure
> what directory I specified.  Then there is backup number.  I have no
> idea how to get this.
> 
> I poked around some, but came up empty.  Any suggestions?

If you look in the BackupPC data directory hierarchy (the place where
the pool is stored, very often somewhere like /var/lib/BackupPC/) you
will find a directory .../pc/ that contains a directory for each host
that you're backing up.  In each host directory there are directories
whose names are entirely made up of digits.  Those are backup numbers.
You can tell when they were made from the timestamps.  Each directory
N should have a corresponding file XferLOG.N.z which is the BackupPC
transfer log that was made while the backup was performed.

The backup numbers are also shown in the GUI interface:
.../BackupPC_Admin?host=hostname

Does this answer the question or did I miss something?

-- 

73,
Ged.


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