On 08/09/16 02:37, Michele Zarri wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to access backups created with a different machine? > > My backuppc server died, but /var/lib/backuppc was on a different disk > so I still have full backups of localhost. > Ideally I would like to restore the full system but it would already be > very good to recover the mysql databases and selected system > configuration files. > > I reinstalled ubuntu, reinstalled backuppc, relinked /var/lib/backuppc but > - No joy with the GUI (old backups do not show) > - No joy using the command line. > > (as backuppc user) > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 224 -s '/' > /var/lib/mysql > /tmp/dbs.tar > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad backup number 224 for > host localhost > > - BackupPC_zcat works but I have not figured out how to restore > user:group and permissions > > Is there a way to get the GUI to read the backups (I am lazy)? If not is > there a way to trick BackupPC_tarCreate? > > Note that when I re-installed backuppc it probably wrote new files in > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ and I do not have backups of those.
It would help if you provided the error messages you get with the gui in the logs... However, my guess is that the userid/groupid for the new install doesn't match the old. You have two choices: 1) Uninstall backuppc, remove the user/group backuppc, manually create the user/group backuppc but make sure you match the userid/groupid on the files in /var/lib/backuppc.... 2) Re-mount /var/lib/backuppc and map all existing files to the new userid/groupid that the backuppc user has. Another possibility, you need to re-create the config files and/or hosts file.... The contents probably don't matter a lot, as long as the hostnames match the old ones (see /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ for the right names). Hope that helps.... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
