On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Ishan Patel <a-ipatel AT gloscon DOT com> wrote:

Hi friends ..

Thanks in advance to all of you guys...

I am new to BackupPC .. and i have done a lot of try and error for successfully haveing my data back ..

BUT I AM NOTABLE TO RESTORE MY DATA THROUGH WEB INTERFACE

When i select files and click on restore then it says that

"Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of localhost"

but my files are not restored .. and i got the following error in my log file...

2008-07-11 14:25:41 restore started below directory /backbpo
2008-07-11 14:25:46 restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)

....

"Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of localhost"

so any idea why its happening ?

i would like to provide u people some out puts and some of my configuration ..


here we go....

---->>>uname -a

root@ishan:~# uname  -a
Linux ishan 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

---->>>i m using Ubuntu 8.04- the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008.

---->>>this is my /etc/sudoers file's entry

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar

---->>>/etc/passwd has following entry....

backuppc:x:1003:1003::/home/backuppc:/bin/bash

---->>> i have done ssh without root passwd configuration by generation public/private key for my localhost

i.e i am able to ssh to my own pc with root passwd

proof...

backuppc@ishan:/root$ ssh -l root 192.168.0.96 whoami
root
backuppc@ishan:/root$

here i dont even prompt for passwd ..so this is also done ....

---->>>

i have my configuration in /etc/backuppc directory

backuppc@ishan:~$ cd /etc/backuppc/
backuppc@ishan:/etc/backuppc$ ls -l
total 100
-rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root       414 2007-10-25 01:54 apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root     77591 2007-10-25 01:54 config.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root      2238 2007-10-25 01:54 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root         0 2008-07-10 15:03 htgroup
-rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root        23 2008-07-10 15:03 htpasswd
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data   448 2008-07-11 11:23 localhost.pl
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data   450 2008-07-11 10:26 localhost.pl.old
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data     0 2008-07-10 15:26 LOCK
backuppc@ishan:/etc/backuppc$



---->>> my localhost.pl file

backuppc@ishan:/etc/backuppc$ cat localhost.pl
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';

$Conf{TarShareName} = [
  '/backbpo'
];

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName --totals';

# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
  '/backbpo'
];
backuppc@ishan:/etc/backuppc$


---->>>
this is my directory whose backup i m taking

its  /backbpo

#ls -l /backbpo

drwxrwxrwx   3 backuppc backuppc  4096 2008-07-11 12:44 backbpo

#cd /backbpo

ls -l

-rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc    0 2008-07-10 15:24 3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc    0 2008-07-10 15:24 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc    0 2008-07-10 15:24 5
-rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc    0 2008-07-10 15:24 6
drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-07-10 18:27 test

AND this is what my backup is

root@ishan:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# ls -l
total 12
-rw-r----- 2 backuppc backuppc   24 2008-07-11 13:31 attrib
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc  516 2008-07-11 13:31 backupInfo
drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-07-11 13:31 f%2fbackbpo

i have also tried to give 777 permissions to f%2fbackbpo firectory .. then also no help..

----->>

this is  my disk usage ..

root@ishan:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              20G  2.9G   16G  16% /
varrun                474M  116K  474M   1% /var/run
varlock               474M     0  474M   0% /var/lock
udev                  474M   56K  474M   1% /dev
devshm                474M   12K  474M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   474M   38M  437M   8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1             487M   29M  433M   7% /boot
/dev/sda2              19G  9.1G  8.4G  52% /data
/dev/sda5              15G  407M   14G   3% /var


------>>

this is my hosts file

root@ishan:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ishan.com ishan
192.168.0.96    ishan.com ishan
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


...................................

i am getting my restore fail everytime ..

2008-07-11 14:46:13 restore started below directory /backbpo
2008-07-11 14:46:17 restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)



------------->>>

last i have also tried to do something nesty with command line but i m getting this error in that also ..

root@ishan:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/2/f%2fbackbpo/f2
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat: can't open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/2/f%2fbackbpo/f2






SSSOOOOO please help me out from this ...


and do tell me if u want some other information...


Regards
Ishan

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