Hi, the configuration is in /etc/backuppc there is a hosts file which defines the active hosts. It could be enough to add the host you wish to restore to this file.
Met vriendelijke groet, Micha Kersloot www.kovoks.nl | www.mailcasa.eu | Volg @kovoks op Twitter E mi...@kovoks.nl T +31 (0)345 - 53 29 27 A Bellweg 36 | 4104 BJ Culemborg KvK 11033334 ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- > Van: "Michele Zarri" <m.za...@gmail.com> > Aan: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Verzonden: Woensdag 7 september 2016 18:37:42 > Onderwerp: [BackupPC-users] access backups created by different server > 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. > > Cheers, > > Michele > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/