Is there a way to explore psadump / backup files ?

[BoXie]

Subject says it all.

Is there a way to explore the backupfiles made by psadump ?? So i can be SURE that some files are backed up ?

'Cause i will be shot if some files on my server are missing during a restore ..

 

[jamesyeeoc]

You can see this other post:

http://forum.sw-soft.com/showthread.php?threadid=21896&highlight=mime+AND+backup

The files are mime encoded, so use of a mime extraction tool (such as RipMime) is required. See the other post for more details.

 

[BoXie]

Thank you very much....I'll check it out !

 

[BoXie]

Ok .. some info for others (using the search function in this forum :

To explore your psadump files .. use a MIME-decoder ..

Total Commander (www.ghisler.com) can do this very well .. it is also a real must-have file manager anyway.

After you decoded the dump-file you will see a lot of .bin files. Rename them to *.tar.gz and you can explore the contents.

The files you cannot explore after renaming are probably textfiles (MySQL-dumps).

 

[sieb@]

Here's a good decoder: http://www.miken.com/uud/