Hi This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer willing to fool with the command line method. I spent days trying to get things to work. I don't have time to fiddle with it any more. I find the instructions vague.
The real problem is with the GUI. Check out the following: 1. I selected the system from the left hand menu that I wish to restore. 2. I selected the full backup #. In this case #169. This listed the backed up directories etc, var, root and home. 3. I selected all and check marks appeared by all of the directories. 4. I hit "Restore selected files". The restore method page appeared. 5. I selected method 3 (tar file ) and left the "Make archive relative to /" checked since I don't understand what it does. The save file screen appeared and I selected save. This created a restore.tar file in my /home/gary/Download directory. Now the file that was created was 331MB. Unfortunately it should be 21GB. Backuppc only restored the directory structure and some of the files that were in the first tier of directories. None of the lower level files were restored. I have tried breaking up the backup into individual directores (ie etc, var, home, root) but with essentially the same result. Beyond about the 2nd tier transfer is unreliable. I have checked the backup archives and they contain all of the data. The data is there but I can't get it back. Any help will be sincerely appreciated. 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/