Topic: How to read backup files

[Lloyd Keen]

Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to open the *.bak file created from a backup so I can see exactly what is being backed up?

[Charlie Brady]

Lloyd Keen wrote:
 
> Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to open the
> *.bak file created from a backup so I can see exactly what is
> being backed up?

Sure. "uuencode" will convert the backup into a tar file. So "uuencode" and "tar" together will extract the backup files.

However I can just tell you what is backed up, these files and directories:
 
 'home/e-smith',
 'etc/e-smith/templates-custom',
 'etc/passwd',
 'etc/shadow',
 'etc/group',
 'etc/gshadow',
 'etc/smbpasswd'

This comprises all the configuration and password databases, and the user accounts and i-bays.

Regards

Charlie