Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-07 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/07 01:59 , phil123456 wrote: > - it does not seem to contain any file(see below) wich is expectable since > there are no file in /var/backup on the client system Then choose a test which does have a file to restore. :) > - getting a tar file from the client to the master is the opposite

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-07 Thread phil123456
it was finaly a permission issue on the folder for backuppc user stupid of me thanks anyway for your tons of infos +-- |This was sent by philippe.flor...@edenred.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-07 Thread phil123456
- it does not seem to contain any file(see below) wich is expectable since there are no file in /var/backup on the client system - getting a tar file from the client to the master is the opposite of a restore (???) - as aforementioned, the rsync setup uses the rsync command took me some time to

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-06 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/06 12:26 , phil123456 wrote: > I really dont understand the usage of backuppc_createtar > > "-h host host from which the tar archive is created" > > but I want to create a restore from the master , not create a tar from a > remote host ...I am sorry, I really dont understand

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-06 Thread Smith, Graham - Computing Technical Officer
cer Department of Computing Institute of Technology Tallaght Tallaght Dublin 24 Ireland -Original Message- From: phil123456 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: 06 July 2016 08:26 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-06 Thread phil123456
I really dont understand the usage of backuppc_createtar "-h host host from which the tar archive is created" but I want to create a restore from the master , not create a tar from a remote host ...I am sorry, I really dont understand besides the command used for the restore is really

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-06 Thread phil123456
I am not sure what happened, but the file cannot be found anywhere on the backuppc host /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h hostname -n -1 -s /var/backup/ employees.sql ./0040755112736654421007730 5ustar rootroot on the host itself $ sudo find / -name

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-05 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/05 12:28 , phil123456 wrote: > on restore, it says it is successfull, but the file is not on the host > and it says there is 1 xferErrs but as I check all the logs, no additional > entries are saying what could go wrong > > 2016-07-05 09:21:31 restore started below directory /var/backup/

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

2016-07-05 Thread phil123456
Hello, on restore, it says it is successfull, but the file is not on the host and it says there is 1 xferErrs but as I check all the logs, no additional entries are saying what could go wrong 2016-07-05 09:21:31 restore started below directory /var/backup/ to host hostname 2016-07-05 09:21:31

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore freezing

2015-11-22 Thread donkeydong69
This issue, is also causing newly installed systems to break. I can see that certain files are getting restored, but many installed programs are getting broken (in other words, they are being rendered unusable through the partial restore). I guess my following question is, is there a better

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore freezing

2015-11-22 Thread donkeydong69
I found that trying to do a full restore of / seems to break down here: Sending /vmlinuz (remote=vmlinuz) type = 2 restore l 777 0/0 30 /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-33-generic Remote[1]: rsync: mknod "/dev/pts/1" failed: Operation not permitted (1) Remote[1]: rsync: mknod

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore freezing

2015-11-22 Thread donkeydong69
I'm using ubuntu across 4 different computers in my network - one of which runs backuppc. Anything over 3-4 files seems to cause bakuppc to freeze. Right now I'm actually trying to restore an entire file system to a computer, but I've noticed the same issue occur trying to restore 4 items in a

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore error

2015-01-28 Thread info
Hello, I have Backuppc running on all my VPS now one VPS is broke I tried to restore it but but I get #tarerr But no logs what's going wrong. If I try some normal files it will work but full restore won’t. How do you guys restore a complete image? Greetz, A.Duim

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC Restore Zip Archive Empty from GUI

2014-04-09 Thread TN
Hello everyone, On a new install of BackupPC v4 alpha3, I have zip/tar archive file empty when i try to restore a directory or many files from the BackupPC GUI. (Full Backup or Inc Backup) My tests: 1*/ The command line works and i have all my files (for example) :

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-26 Thread Daniel Doughty
CIFS = SMB for unix as best I can tell. Don't know if CIFS does hard links. I see feature pages that say hard link support has been added and a lot of complaints pre-2009 about CIFS not doing hard links. Install it and try. Sent from my phone. Please pardon my brevity, Dan On Jan 25, 2014 3:16

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:44 AM, shankarp backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Les Mikesell. My NAS supports SMB and FTP for file sharing, doesn't support NFS. I think SMB doesn't support hard links. Any solution to use this SMB share as storage location? If the NAS

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-23 Thread shankarp
Thank you for the reply Arnold. I could able to select the previous backup for restore. It is working well. I have one more question. Now i am trying to change the storage location to a network drive. I mounted that network drive and modified the $Conf{TopDir}. I also moved the files to that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:29 AM, shankarp backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thank you for the reply Arnold. I could able to select the previous backup for restore. It is working well. I have one more question. Now i am trying to change the storage location to a network drive. I mounted

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-23 Thread shankarp
Thanks for the reply Les Mikesell. My NAS supports SMB and FTP for file sharing, doesn't support NFS. I think SMB doesn't support hard links. Any solution to use this SMB share as storage location? +-- |This was sent by

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-22 Thread shankarp
Hello All, I am evaluating backuppc to implement it on our organization as our backup solution. I have noticed that, when restoring it provides the latest backup only. Is it possible to restore to some previous dates using backuppc (not the latest backup) ? Thank you! Regards, Shankar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:26 AM, shankarp backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello All, I am evaluating backuppc to implement it on our organization as our backup solution. I have noticed that, when restoring it provides the latest backup only. Is it possible to restore to some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Restore to Previous Date

2014-01-22 Thread Arnold Krille
Am Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:26:11 -0800 schrieb shankarp backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com: Hello All, I am evaluating backuppc to implement it on our organization as our backup solution. I have noticed that, when restoring it provides the latest backup only. Is it possible to restore to some

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc restore

2010-07-24 Thread Matthias Meyer
Huba Zsolt wrote: Hi I'm trying to configure a simple backup solution for a development server, backuppc runs on the server. I use Ubuntu 8.04, backuppc 3.0.0. It seems that creating backups working fine (0 errors on summary page) but restore doesn't work. I tried to restore more files

[BackupPC-users] backuppc restore

2010-07-21 Thread Huba Zsolt
Hi I'm trying to configure a simple backup solution for a development server, backuppc runs on the server. I use Ubuntu 8.04, backuppc 3.0.0. It seems that creating backups working fine (0 errors on summary page) but restore doesn't work. I tried to restore more files with different permissions

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-18 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Joseph, (CC'ing back to the list, BTW: Please don't send HTML mails.) On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:13:39PM +0100, Joseph Holland wrote: We backed up the:br br /etc/BackupPCbr /usr/local/share/BackupPC (install directory, default is /usr/local/BackupPC)br /var/data/BackupPC (data

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph Holland
Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just wondering is it possible to restore this data over a fresh install of BaclupPC on

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Joseph Holland wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just wondering is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Koen Linders
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:15 +0200, Joseph Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive. I'm just

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC restore???

2008-04-17 Thread Koen Linders
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:27:00 +0200, Koen Linders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:15 +0200, Joseph Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our company. Recently one of the servers went down. We have been using

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore problem

2008-01-23 Thread Pierguido
Hi all. I'm new to the list, but i have a very important question. I've set up a backup server with backuppc and till yesterday was woring very well. Yesterday it had a porblem with the raid card (3ware) and it lost the root partition...don't ask me why...but it happened (we're at the moment

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore failed.. huh?

2005-12-02 Thread backuppc
Hey all, OK got a new error for you. Today I wanted to restore something for the first time.. and wouldn't you know it. Errors.. no restore happening. What I tried to do: I back up localhost to localhost (another drive, same machine). Now as a test I wanted to restore /var/log/uucp.log. A 0byte

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore failed.. huh?

2005-12-02 Thread backuppc
Hm. Well I thought I found the problem (I couldn't ssh to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without getting a password prompt) but after I fixed that the problem still remained. Ratz! Here's the restorecmd: $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -x -p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore failed.. huh?

2005-12-02 Thread Craig Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. Well I thought I found the problem (I couldn't ssh to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without getting a password prompt) but after I fixed that the problem still remained. Ratz! Here's the restorecmd: $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/env