On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach<gary719_li...@verizon.net> > wrote: > >> Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems >> and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts >> didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. >> I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started >> a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper >> directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then >> tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory >> strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can >> even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause >> this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved >> it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work >> form me. >> > I can't think of anything that would cause a problem like that, but > can you make a tar image with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line tool > on the server and restore that on the client machine? > > Thanks for the reply Les
I tried to try BackupPC_tarCreate and gave up. First the file wouldn't run until I appended ./ in front, not obvious to me at least. Then I got the following: BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> -s / > target.tar This returned - Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 112 (backuppc) Please su backuppc first. su backuppc $ $BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> -s / > target.tar sh: 2:can not crate target.tar: Permission Denied. sh:2:BackupPC_tarCreate: not found. At this point I quit in disgust. Gary R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ 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/