> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
> From: "Les Mikesell"
> To: "daggs"
> Cc: "General list for user discussion, questions and support"
>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 12:08 AM daggs 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?
>
> --
>Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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