[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

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 gary719_li...@verizon.net 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.

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 Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net 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

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 Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days

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 gary719_li...@verizon.net 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

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 Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up

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_tarCreate

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 gary719_li...@verizon.net 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 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 backuppclogged

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 gary719_li...@verizon.net 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

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 Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net 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

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 gary719_li...@verizon.net 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. '.'