I have found that the most reliable restore method is to download to a tar
file.

Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
systems administrator
INTERA -- 512-425-2006
 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:48 AM
>>To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
>>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync gets stuck
>>
>>Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:45:29AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat 
>>(BooK) wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:35:03AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat 
>>(BooK) wrote:
>>>>> I understand this as rsync currently restoring the file 
>>above. Using 
>>>>> ls -l to see the progress of the restore, I get this:
>>>>>
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 esouche esouche 107368448 2010-04-05 22:47 
>>places.sqlite
>>>>> -rw------- 1 root    root    107216896 2010-04-21 00:00 
>>.places.sqlite.UL48SN
>>>> I tried restoring only this file, and watched the progress.
>>>> The restore got stuck at the same point:
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 esouche esouche 107368448 2010-04-05 22:47 
>>places.sqlite
>>>> -rw------- 1 root    root    107216896 2010-04-21 08:43 
>>.places.sqlite.uVfJCE
>>>>
>>> 
>>> So I tried to restore that specific file using a zip 
>>archive, only to 
>>> discover that the old file on the target and the file being 
>>restored 
>>> by backuppc had the same md5 and sha1 sums.
>>> 
>>> Is that a known bug in rsync?
>>
>>No - or at least I haven't heard of it. Could you have 
>>filesystem corruption on either side?
>>
>>-- 
>>   Les Mikesell
>>    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>>
>>
>>
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