Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 11/14/2012 04:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >> You don't get the help message unless the command had an error. You >> omitted the 'files/directories' that the help message should have >> shown as part of the command. '.' will work for ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 04:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > >> OK, I did the following: >> mkdir /tar >> chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file >> cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the >> BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > >>> >> Was this from a backup of "localhost"? >> >> > No. Localhost is the system where backuppc resides and where the stored > backup files are kept. The actual computer system that I am trying to > restore - lets call super2 > for want of a na

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 03:54 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > >> OK, I did the following: >> mkdir /tar >> chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file >> cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the >> BackupPC_tarCreate script >> su backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Gary Roach wrote: >>> > OK, I did the following: > mkdir /tar > chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file > cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the > BackupPC_tarCreate script > su backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Stowe
> OK, I did the following: > mkdir /tar > chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file > cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the > BackupPC_tarCreate script > su backuppclogged in as backuppc > then ran: > $./BackupPC_tarC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 01:42 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > >> On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach >>> wrote: >>> >>> Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > I tried to try BackupPC_tarCreate and gave up. First the file wouldn't > run until I appended ./ in front, not obvious to me at least. That's normal. Your search PATH for executables does not include the current directory by default. > Then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach >> wrote: >> >>> Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems >>> and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach > wrote: > >> Well it finally happened. 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 reinst

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Well it finally happened. 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

[BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all Well it finally happened. 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