Adam Goryachev wrote at about 04:03:31 +1000 on Monday, June 15, 2009:
 > Chris Baker wrote:
 > > It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or
 > > so. The restores just quit for no apparent reason.
 > > 
 > > I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by
 > > Monday morning. What should I do to make sure my restores are
 > > successful? I simply can't afford to have my company lose time like
 > > this.
 > 
 > 
 > The best thing you could do to better allow us to help you is post a
 > copy of your config files, and log file from the restore attempt...
 > 
 > Generally, I could suggest the following:
 > 1) If using rsync/rsyncd for the restore, and each file is smaller than
 > what you can transfer in two hours, then you can just retry and you will
 > get more data transferred each time
 > 
 > 2) If using any other method, then restore to another host local to the
 > backuppc and then send that data across using rsync and/or compression
 > to speed it up.
 > 
 > 3) Consider restoring to a local USB HDD, and then transport the USB HDD
 > to the remote machine and copy across. The sneaker net really can be
 > quite fast sometimes....
 > 
 > 4) Did I mention that you might look at what your timeout value is set
 > to ? Perhaps it is 7200 ?

Another way to restore that might prove simpler is to use the recently
posted fuse filesystem extension for backuppc. This allows you to
"mount" any backup you want (including incrementals) as a filesystem
with all the incrementals filled in. You could then copy/tar/rsync the
resulting mounted file system.

A couple of caveats.
- The ownerships will probably only be right if you have the same
  users in the passwd file on the backuppc host as on your
  client. Similarly, the permissions may have some issues if not run
  as root (though I'm not sure)

- The process may be slow...

 > 
 > Hope something helps, but really, you should just provide more
 > information so we can give better advice...

Yea - just saying a restore doesn't work really isn't much help... ;)
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Adam
 > 
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