On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:58:41PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Adam Goryachev wrote at about 04:03:31 +1000 on Monday, June 15, 2009: > > Chris Baker wrote: > > > It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or > > > so. The restores just quit for no apparent reason. > > > > > > I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by > > > Monday morning. What should I do to make sure my restores are > > > successful? I simply can't afford to have my company lose time like > > > this. > > <cut> > > Another way to restore that might prove simpler is to use the recently > posted fuse filesystem extension for backuppc. This allows you to > "mount" any backup you want (including incrementals) as a filesystem > with all the incrementals filled in. You could then copy/tar/rsync the > resulting mounted file system. > > A couple of caveats. > - The ownerships will probably only be right if you have the same > users in the passwd file on the backuppc host as on your > client. Similarly, the permissions may have some issues if not run > as root (though I'm not sure)
Both backuppc and backuppcfs use numeric UIDs and don't bother to map usernames. A normal cp would restore UIDs without any problems, tar might need a --numeric-owner, rsync might need a --numeric-ids to prevent them from doing uid mapping when machine that does the mount differs from the machine te restore is done to. The same holds for permissions - as long as the user doing the restores has access himself, that shouldn't be a problem (but he might have trouble restoring uid's for files not owned by himself). Backuppcfs will need a -o allow_other. > - The process may be slow... I doubt it will be any slower than using BackupPC's own restore functionality. -- Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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/
