On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:10:30PM +0200, Frank Wolkwitz wrote:
> After raid controller failure the pool file system is running in read 
> only mode.
> Making a file system check would take several days (ext3 fs, 13TB of 16 
> TB used) and success is not garanteed.
> 
> So the question is: Is it possible to run backuppc in a read only 
> environment, not to make backups, but to restore files?

Well maybe but why would you. If the filesystem is inconsistent, how
do you know that the file you are restoring points to the proper data?

That being said you can set $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '2' in the
config.pl file to prevent backups from running. I am not sure how to
disable the nightly housekeeping routines and trash clean operations.

Have you tried running BackupPC_tarCreate without the daemon
running to see if you can extract data?

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