On 9/23/2010 10:05 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > [..] > >> Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using >> BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? > > No, sorry, I've not tried zip yet. > > I'll first try to understand why things work on one but not the other system. > > > I've by found a windows XP host who friendly accepts the restores sent to him > -- including the "problem files". > > My guess is that the Vista Machine has strange permissions set for some > files. > > Does Backuppc restore the permissions, as well? (I.e. could there be a > situation in which a directory is created, made read-only, and then files are > written into it?)
I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that you can read in the backups but can't write back over the existing copy > > > I'll check the file system of the XP host. > > M. > >> -Robin >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: >>> Update: >>> >>> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote: >>>> Update: >>>> >>>> tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big >>> >>> fails >>> >>>> cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work >>> >>> fails >>> >>> But: >>> using the 'i' option for >>> >>> -i, --ignore-zeros >>> >>> ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF) >>> >>> makes tar wander through the archive even thought it might have detected >>> EOF markers (i.e. "two consecutive zero-filled records" according to >>> the wikipedia page of the tar format) >>> >>> I observed several warnings in my cmdline: >>> tar tfi restore.tar |wc -l >>> >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >>> 387781 >>> >>> I can only hope this works and helps others. >>> >>> M. >>> >>>> And I thought windows was terrible... >>>> >>>> M. >>>> >>>> On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote: >>>>> On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> btw: this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same >>>>>> errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh. >>>>> >>>>> But windows specific? Are you sure the windows user has write >>>>> access and the file isn't locked by something else having it open? >>>>> >>>>>> And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how >>>>>> super great backuppc was... >>>>> >>>>> There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through >>>>> a browser and restoring from that. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
