Manually uncompressing backup files creating by BackupPC (Zzzz)

Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 35 words The perl script /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat does it, but you need BackupPC installed for this purpose. There is a standalone frontend for the compression libraries available called Zzzz… made by the same guy who is behind mplayer.