Topic: Backup to Desktop question

[Jon Thiele]

Are there any common *nix or Windows utilities to examine/extract the contents of the esmithsg.bak file that's created using the "Backup to Desktop" option in e-smith-manager???  From the documentaion, I know that the all user accounts, user directories, i-bay contents, web content and configuration parameters are compressed and stored in this file - but I'd really like to see just what files are backed up, with the possibility of extracting single/multiple files from the backup.

Thanx.

[Robert Boerner]

The *.bak file is just a uuencoded tar file. Change the extension to *.uue and open it with WinZip. This will give you a file called *.tar. Open that again with WinZip, and you will see all of your directories and files.

Bob

PS Don't think I figured it out all by myself I remember this from another post awhile back.