On 11/14/2012 01:42 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > >> 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. >> > Simple error ... the error message even told you how to fix it. > > >> 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. >> > Basic *nix permissions issue. You switched to user backuppc, but you > are trying to write to a directory that backuppc does not have > permissions for (since you started as root, I'm guessing you are still > in root's home directory). Try doing "cd ~backuppc" and then running > the command again. This will move you to backuppc's home directory > where you will (presumably) have permission to create a file. > > >> At this point I quit in disgust. >> > Don't give up so fast. You're almost there. > > OK, I did the following: mkdir /tar chown backuppc:backuppc /tar a place to store the tar file cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the BackupPC_tarCreate script su backuppc logged in as backuppc then ran: $./BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h localhost -s / > /tar/target.tar
The script ran, printed out the help menu and created an empty target.tar There were 2 comments about depreciated commands in the script but no errors. Now what. 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/