> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 12:04 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 Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:15 PM daggs <da...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > Backuppc_tarCreate needs a '-s sharename' option which would be the > share you used for the backup (maybe '/') and you can specify a list > of files or directories to restore. You can also use '-l' to just > list the files. I'd try that first - and maybe restore a small > directory like /etc or a single file first to see if you are on the > right track. I'm retired and a little fuzzy on this myself. Also, > is the drive mounted as /mnt or something under /mnt? I'd cd into > the top of that mount point to run the command instead of using -C. > Also tar needs a '-' after the f option to tell it to read stdin. > managed to get it to work, the the -s was / and the rest was all the folders one after another as * didn't worked
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