Gabriel Landais wrote:
> Hi,
> My main hard drive failed, I have now a hard drive with all backuppc
> backups, no confs... I restored my home server with 2x500GB in RAID-1,
> hope it will help in future. As I'm trying to restore my data, I don't
> know what would be the best practice. So I've plugged the backup drive
> in my desktop PC and installed backuppc. Then I've created a symbolic
> link from my /var/lib/backuppc/pc on the pc folder where I can find my
> backups. I've then tried to restore thanks to BackupPC_tarCreate,
> without success...
>
> Here a tries :
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/glandais$
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -n -1 -h localhost -s
> '/etc' /* > /mnt/server/restore/restore.etc.tar
The shell is going to expand that /* to whatever it sees in the current
running system, which probably isn't what you intended. Was the backup
only done of /etc or are you trying to only extract /etc?
> I just want to extract backups into a file structure, no way?
Yes, you just need the right command line. I'd guess that you want a
'.' instead of that /*.
--
Les Mikesell
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