Thank you. As this is a new install, I have not even install a virus scanner
yet. I most certainly will.

-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 7:57 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] restores keep failing

Chris Baker wrote:
>> I doubt if anyone can help diagnose the problem without a lot more 
>> details regarding the way you are trying to restore and what error you 
>> get.
> 
> In some cases, it simply says backup abandoned. Sometimes it says that the
backup has failed. I also got a BackupPC_tarcreate failed message.
> 
> I tried plugging a crossover cable directly between the two machines. This
did not help.

The logfile should have something more specific than that - but it 
sounds like a timeout or some kind of write error (weird windows 
permissions - or writing a file too big to a FAT filesystem?).  If you 
have enough space on the backuppc server, you might restore there with 
BackupPC_tarCreate |tar -x, then worry separately about how to get the 
results back to the windows box.  If you have cygwin ssh and rsync 
installed that would be the obvious thing (issuing the command from the 
windows side) since it can restart efficiently after a problem.  Or you 
could samba-share from the server - but you'd need something like 
robocopy to recover from any errors in the copy since the native windows 
tools won't.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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