Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/10 2:58 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > >> Rsync normally creates a tmp file with a different name which is renamed >> when complete. Tar would just truncate and write on top of the old. >> Both would fail on windows open files. > > The trouble I had restoring files happened on both OSes: Window

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-24 Thread Marcus Hardt
On Thursday 23 September 2010 20:06:40 Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/23/2010 12:47 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > >> I really don't think that would work. > > > > It would not work, nor is it possible, since Windows can't delete files > > that are in use. > > Rsync normally creates a tmp file with a d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-24 Thread Marcus Hardt
On Thursday 23 September 2010 19:43:14 Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: > > [..] > > > > > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix > > > equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way > > > to work around the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/23/2010 12:47 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: > >> I really don't think that would work. > > It would not work, nor is it possible, since Windows can't delete files > that are in use. Rsync normally creates a tmp file with a different name which is renamed when complete. Tar would just truncate an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Stowe
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: >> [..] >> >> > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix >> > equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way >> > to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that >> > you can read in the ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: > [..] > > > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix > > equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way > > to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that > > you can read in the backups b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Marcus Hardt
[..] > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix equivalents. It > doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way to work around the > existing ones - so you may have files that you can read in the backups > but can't write back over the existing copy Right. There might be files al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/23/2010 10:05 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > [..] > >> Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using >> BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? > > No, sorry, I've not tried zip yet. > > I'll first try to understand why things work on one but not the other system. > > > I've by found

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Marcus Hardt
[..] > Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using > BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? No, sorry, I've not tried zip yet. I'll first try to understand why things work on one but not the other system. I've by found a windows XP host who friendly accepts the restores sent t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-23 Thread Marcus Hardt
Hi, I unpacked the tar on the backup server itself, which is also the host on which I used firefox to download the tarfile. The only tar I found is version 1.23 (corresponding to the debian/testing tar package 1.23-2.1) However, my primary problem is not tar. The primary problem is that I hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
There is something *very* wrong with either the tar used to make the archive, or the tar used to restore. I wouldn't trust anything it outputs at all. What version of tar on both ends? Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? -Robin On

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-14 Thread Marcus Hardt
Update: On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote: > Update: > > tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big fails > cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work fails But: using the 'i' option for -i, --ignore-zeros ignore zeroed blocks in archi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/14/10 6:16 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > Update: > > tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big > > cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work That doesn't make much sense. What version of tar is this? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-14 Thread Marcus Hardt
Update: tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work And I thought windows was terrible... M. On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > btw: this problem s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-14 Thread Marcus Hardt
On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: [..] > > And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how super > > great backuppc was... > > There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through a > browser and resto

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > Hi, > > btw: this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same errors using > smbclient and rsync via ssh. But windows specific? Are you sure the windows user has write access and the file isn't locked by something else having it open? > An

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-13 Thread Marcus Hardt
Hi, btw: this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh. M. And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how super great backuppc was... M. On Monday 13 September 2010 14:32:16 Marcus Hardt wrote: > Hi, > > I need to restore

[BackupPC-users] Restore takes way too long and the fails

2010-09-13 Thread Marcus Hardt
Hi, I need to restore a backup This works for some folders and files but not for all Trying various combinations I found one file which reproducably shows this error, while others reproducably don't. The errornous file is 56 MB, and direct download via the webinterface works. Backups also fai