There is plenty of traffic showing in the archives here, but it does appear that there is no-one willing to help newbie-level problems.
I asked a similar question a few months ago here and got no response then either. Sometimes with these online communities I guess it happens that there is currently no-one on the list willing to help. It's a bit crap for newbies especially since the documentation doesn't help - at least not in my case. For instance now my problem is with the documentation about restores which says "You can optionally change the target host name, target share name, and target path prefix for the restore, allowing you to restore the files to a different location." However it doesn't say what to enter when there is no target share name (I'm restoring to a local file system, not a share). If I leave the field blank, the restore fails. > Hi, > I am new here and I am still experimenting with BackupPC, but I am worried > too about this problem... > > This is a common scenario where a machine goes down, nobody can help? > > > ----- > Alain Mouette > > > > A 7 de outubro de 2016 14:16:37 [email protected] escreveu: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
