I'd be very grateful for any help.

Are the commands logged by backuppc after each "Running:" exactly what it
executes?

Is it just one command there split over the lines, or is it 2 sequential?

Is it as user backuppc? Or as root? I see it's using 'ssh -l root' which
is confusing

I figured out why there were 3 login errors. Backuppc was trying to ssh to
root and there was no passwordless login for it, so I set it up but
immediately got the next problem:

/bin/tar: option requires an argument -- 'C'
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
Tar exited with error 16384 () status
restore failed: BackupPC_tarCreate failed

And I can see from the command that the value of $shareName+ is meant to
appear there - or is it $shareName and the '+' is for tar?




> One of my hosts died completely and needs replacing, but in the meantime I
> had to restorer some of the files to the localhost where backuppc is
> running.
>
> I used the GUI to set up the restore job, but it immediately failed with
> the usual suspect: ssh problems. Since I'd had to solve that problem
> before, making sure that the passwordless ssh login between host and
> client worked.
>
> In this case, backuppc is trying to ssh to localhost.
>
> I went back to the command line and set up ssh so that it can now
> passwordless-ssh to itself either as root or as backuppc. I tested both
> cases with all combinations:
>
> sudo -u backuppc ssh [email protected] whoami
> sudo -u backuppc ssh backuppc@localhost whoami
> sudo -u backuppc ssh backuppc@gondor whoami
>
> and they all work nicely.
>
> However this seems to have made backuppc's problems worse, and now I get
> the error appearing not just once as before, but 3 times as copied from
> the log file below:
>
> Contents of file
> /media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/pc/localhost/RestoreLOG.8.z, modified
> 2016-10-07 16:34:22
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root localhost env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -x -p
> --numeric-owner --same-owner -v -f - -C
> Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h fangorn -n 72 -s
> /cygdrive/d/Documents -t -r / -p /home/adam/fangorn/ /
> Xfer PIDs are now 25659,25660
> No protocol specified
>
> (ssh-askpass:25663): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> No protocol specified
>
> (ssh-askpass:25664): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> No protocol specified
>
> (ssh-askpass:25665): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
> tarCreate: Unable to write to output file (Connection reset by peer)
> restore failed: BackupPC_tarCreate failed
>
> So has anyone seen this before? Is there some backuppc-foo that I need to
> do, or is ssh just not set up properly still?
>
> Regards
> Adam
>
>
>
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