I'm a little confused by the usage of BackupPC_zipCreate The directory I need a zip of is:
/backup/data/pc/fshac1/530/f%2fhome/fhefinw The command I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to run (as user backuppc) is: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -h localhost -n 530 -s fshac1 fhefinw > /backup/hefin.zip The error is: "bad backup number 530 for host localhost" I guess I missed something out here! TIA Huw -- Huw Wyn Jones Systems Administrator Coleg Meirion Dwyfor [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mikesell" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 12 February, 2010 15:57:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring files without backuppc On 2/12/2010 4:40 AM, Huw Wyn Jones wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have an old backuppc server which is no longer properly functional. I can > get the server running reliably with just networking and sshd services, but > if I start the backuppc service I get a kernel panic and the whole server > freezes. > > However I need to recover a users files from this old system. I read that you > can recover single files from the command line - but unfortunately I need > around 70Mb's worth of files! Not really practical to do this one at a time. > Please correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC Backuppc encodes files as it backs > them up. Is there a way in which I could scp/rsync this users files to my > desktop and decode them there? > > As ever all suggestions greatly appreciated. Have you tried BackuPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zipCreate? You should be able to execute them via ssh and collect the output elsewhere - or pipe to an appropriate extract command. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_restore_options -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
