Hi Ib,
Another approach that I came to think of is to try to emulate the
environment of your previous working setup. Ie. install BackupPC 3 using
the same OS that you had before. VMs or containers are a good way to do
this.
> I wonder how do these programs find the backups - for tarCreate for
Hi Johan,
First thank you so much for your efford, although is hasn't solved the
problem yet.
Unfortunally I don't that much extra space to accommodate an extra copy
of the backups. (around 6TB).
I have been thinking it looks like none of the BackupPC utility programs
(BackupPC_) are work
Hi Ib,
This is sounds more like a problem with BackupPC internals, if the
backup number is indeed correct. Maybe someone more familiar with the
code in question can help? Maybe something got corrupted in the pool or
metadata as well (you mentioned data loss)?
Specifically, manual and automatic
Hi Johan,
I tried your suggestion of using tarCreate, but with no luck - I keep
getting the error "bad backup number" for host.
In order to keep it simple, I decided to just make a list of the backup,
and leave the tar-part out for a start.
it's all run as the backuppc-user (backuppc)
I enter
Hi,
> I can browse and restore single files via the browser, but as it
> concerns about 2TB of data it is some job!!
The tarCreate option can be a doable solution as a one-off since the
rsync route may require more time to set up but web restores work.
Basically it creates a tar that you can pi
Hi Johan, and thanks for the fast responce,
I'm running the restore job from the Web UI, as you assume.
I have checked, and PoolV3Enabled is ON (1)
I can browse and restore single files via the browser, but as it
concerns about 2TB of data it is some job!!.
The RSync Paths/Commands/Args are pr
Hi Ib,
I am assuming you are running an restore job from the web UI.
First, make sure that PoolV3Enabled is on since you are accessing a V3
pool from a V4 installation. This is found under Server settings general
parameters.
As a quick solution just to get access to the data or to do a manual
I have just installed BackupPc v4.1.1 from Github on a new CentOS7 server.
The backup-server is at the same time my file-server. Unfortunately I
have lost a number of my data-directories, but I do still have several
backup's from a previous BackupPC v3 installation.
So my priority is to restore
