> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM > From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikes...@gmail.com> > To: "daggs" <da...@gmx.com> > Cc: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 12:08 AM daggs <da...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > what is the expected behavior if I restore to remote and not localhost? > > > > > > > > > > That's going to depend on ssh being set up correctly on the remote. > > > And it will use the method configured for that host for the restore. > > > If you want the large tar image file instead you could use the web > > > interface to download it on some other computer with space. > > > > > > > both machines are headless... > > also, I'm not sure I can place a >2 TB file anywhere on my systems. > > > > I assume I can use BackupPC_zcat on each file and restore it to the proper > > location, thing is, I have the files which are part of either full backup > > and incremental backup > > and the last save is a incremental one, so is there a way to work with only > > the incremental one and have BackupPC_zcat know when to take it from the > > full backup? > > Did you want to restore to the original remote host or to a mounted > local filesystem? If the latter, and the problem is not having space > for the intermediate tar image file, then pipe the tarCreate command > output to an appropriate tar restore command. Note that the extract > will happen in your current directory unless you include a -C path > option, and ownership is going to be set according to the numeric user > id on the original file which may not match when on a different > machine. I want to restore it to a mount I've attached to the backup server so Backuppc_tarCreate -h host -n -1 | tar xf -C /mnt will do the trick?
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