that was it! thanks for your help. one thing to keep in mind is that
you need the Time::ParseDate perl module to run this script. why
doesn't backuppc include all these perl module scripts in the
installation?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Craig Barratt
<cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net> wrote:
>
> Leandro writes:
>
> > I recently installed backuppc onto a new server and mounted 
> > /var/lib/backuppc from a remote NAS where all the backup data is stored. I 
> > can see all the old backups for the all my hosts except one. This one host 
> > ran a scheduled backup last night which started as backup # 0. I can see 
> > the old backups for this host when mounting the NAS onto my linux machine 
> > where backuppc is installed, but the backuppc web interface won't show me 
> > these backups, it only shows me backup #0. Why is it not showing me the 
> > older backups? I'm using backuppc 3.0 on ubuntu 8.04 server edition.
>
> It sounds like the backups file got trashed.
>
> It's the file in, eg, /data/BackupPC/pc/HOST/backups that summarizes
> each back.  I assume it only has one line in it, right?
>
> If you have several numbered directories in /data/BackupPC/pc/HOST
> that don't have matching lines in /data/BackupPC/pc/HOST/backups
> then you should rebuild the backups file:
>
>    su backuppc
>    cp /data/BackupPC/pc/HOST/backups /data/BackupPC/pc/HOST/backups.save
>    /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary HOST
>
> Craig

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