I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed 4.1.1 as a proposed solution in our environment.  My previous experience has been with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences with.

My question/observation is this: 

In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being backed up by BackupPC.   

Pass 1:

In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’,  I navigated to the most recent backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore selected files”.

The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir  (testserver, /, /) and hit “Start Restore”.  The final confirmation screen showed:

You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:

Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt

However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”.   Not exactly what I was expecting.   I did this test twice to be sure.

Pass 2:

In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and proceeded with the restore.   Once again, I navigated through the next screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:

You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt/

In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct location, ’testserver:/opt’. 

I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first test case.   Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.

Thanks.

I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed 4.1.1 as a proposed solution in our environment.  My previous experience has been with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences with.

My question/observation is this: 

In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being backed up by BackupPC.   

Pass 1:

In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’,  I navigated to the most recent backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore selected files”.

The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir  (testserver, /, /) and hit “Start Restore”.  The final confirmation screen showed:

You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:

Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt

However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”.   Not exactly what I was expecting.   I did this test twice to be sure.

Pass 2:

In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and proceeded with the restore.   Once again, I navigated through the next screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:

You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt/

In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct location, ’testserver:/opt’. 

I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first test case.   Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.

Thanks.