Virtualmin Backup info files.

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#1 Sat, 01/22/2011 - 11:31
swingkid

Virtualmin Backup info files.

Hi,

can sombody tell me why virtualmin generates tar.gz.info files when I make a Virtualmin Backup of the virtual servers on a FTP-Server?

Would be oleased if somebody could help me.

Greetings from Germany :)

Sat, 01/22/2011 - 13:02
andreychek

Howdy,

I believe those .info files contain metadata that improves performance of a restore of backups that are stored remotely. They make it so that Virtualmin doesn't need to extract any information from the backup archive.

-Eric

Sat, 01/22/2011 - 13:58
swingkid

Hi andreychek,

thank you very much again for your quick response. I allready thought it would be something of that kind.

Greetings Jose

Sat, 01/22/2011 - 23:50
helpmin

But please note, that there is a bug regarding this new feature. If you store the backup files offsite (via ssh) and you try to restore, then the backup (via ssh) fails. A workaround would be to either delete the info file stored offsite or just copy the backup folder/files locally.

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