OK well thanks anyways. the webserver in question, is on a secure LAN, and no public access it, only 3 technicians.. ANyone else?
Thanks.... Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 10/23 12:17 , Rob Morin wrote: > >> 2007-10-23 12:12:26 Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h >> localhost <http://joe.dido.ca:888/backuppc/index.cgi?host=localhost> -n 13 >> -s / -t -r /home/rob -p /home/rob/ /home/rob/70_sare_header.cf >> /home/rob/70_sare_header0.cf /home/rob/70_sare_header2.cf >> /home/rob/70_sare_specific.cf >> 2007-10-23 12:12:30 Restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed) >> > > I'll point out that I distrust allowing a web application to write to the > filesystem; so I don't have BackupPC set up to do restores to the > filesystem. > > If I want to recover some files; I'll collect them up as a tarball using the > web interface, copy them to the system in question, unpack them, and then > move them into place after looking at things carefully. > > If I need to restore a whole share worth of files, I'll use > BackupPC_tarCreate on the command line, and then pipe it over to the machine > in question using netcat. > > So I've never really done what I think you're trying to do, and therefore am > not much help. > > I do wonder why that URL is in the command line tho. The "-h localhost > <http://joe.dido.ca:888/backuppc/index.cgi?host=localhost>" bit. AFAIK it > should just be "-h localhost"; but I haven't done much with the new web > interface so I could be just out of date. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
