RE: [cobalt-users] extract Raq backup on Windows?

["Matt Brown" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I was to have a local copy on my windows machine which will allow
> extraction (eg from winzip), I would then have to run the 'strip'
> script on
> the backup and also download a non-header version, making it a near a gig
> transfer??
>
> What is the reasoning behind the 'header strip' script not being
> able to run
> on windows?? I know theres differences in unix and windows files but is
> there potentially a way this could be done or is it a no?

Hi Steve,

Not really a Windows solution, but I had a similar problem to you.

I grabbed a cheap old Pentium 233mhz PC and installed Debian Linux on it
(nice and easy, but any flavour of Linux will probably do), setup proftd to
accept incoming ftp transfers (via an ADSL line) and got the RaQ4i to backup
to it every day (daily incremental ones, I would manually do a full complete
backup once a week).

When I wanted to check the contents of the backups, I would run the
stripheaders.pl file locally on the Linux box which produces an out.tar.gz
file.

Then issue the tar -xvzf out.tar.gz command, and watch it uncompress.

Maybe if you have an old box kicking about this would be a way out of your
problem, or if you have access to a Linux box maybe write a backup on a cd
and check to see it is complete/what you expected.

The stripheaders.pl script (which states for Qube 2 and RaQ 2) but works on
RaQ4 backups (or seems to) is available from
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/scripts/stripheader.pl

HTH

Matt