On 01/29 06:35 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One problem, tho. > My Linux workstation recently suffered a melt down and I am having a > bugger of a time getting rsync to work so that I can recover my > files...which is sort of the point of having a backup server running!
Are you intending to recover your files through the web interface? I don't allow direct restore in any of my backuppc installations, for security reasons. if I'm going to recover files I usually just download the individual files from the web interface if it's just a few of them; or make a tarball or zipfile if there's a lot of them. Use the BackupPC_tarCreate command to recover your files. To recover an entire machine, presuming you have nothing but bare metal, do something like this: - Boot with Knoppix (there are some versions with a bug that will bite you tho; might want to try a live Ubuntu or Gentoo CD instead). - partition and format your disks - swapon your swap space - mount your new partitions - cd to those directories - ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h machine-to-recover -n -1 / /' | tar xpvf - This last command will ssh to your backup server, run the BackupPC_tarCreate command, which generates a tar stream, move the tar stream via STDOUT/STDIN to a tar command on the local box, and unpack it. It does presume that you were backing the root (/) of the machine, and that you want to recover the root (the second /, at the end). Modify it to your own situation. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
