Re: BackupPC restore problem
On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean by trashed? Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the trashed drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the trashed drive? David The /bin directory appears to have been corrupted somehow. With Knoppix I could gain access to all of the other data but was unable to access /bin. I don't know why this happened and that worries me. I tested everything during reformatting and installation and found nothing wrong with the drive. I'm not too worried because I have a complete backup system. Of course I am having trouble with the restore. The data's all there on the backup disk but BackupPC only restored the directories and none of the data. I am trying to create a tar file and manually transfer the data across but am having similar problems. The documentation for manually manipulating BackupPC is obtuse to say the least. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a520e8.5080...@verizon.net
BackupPC restore problem
Hi all I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work for me. The instructions for creating a tar file at the command line are beyond my ken. It might work if you could get BackupPC_tarCreate to actually run, find the proper security setup for it and figure out where to put the tar file. I gave up. Thanks in advance Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a403b7.1060...@verizon.net
Re: BackupPC restore problem
On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean by trashed? Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the trashed drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the trashed drive? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a44b27.20...@holgerdanske.com
Re: BackupPC restore problem
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:53 -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean by trashed? Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the trashed drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the trashed drive? David Also OT: Even if the heads do this click-click noise and the HDD can't start up, it's usually possible to free the heads by knocking against the wired, but dismantled HDD and to copy data from the drive by repeating this procedure as often as needed. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352960477.5109.46.camel@precise
