Re: [BackupPC-users] backup restore via command line

shion wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i want to restore a backup via command line.
> 
> I have already tried to use the BackupPC_restore command but I don't know 
> what I should do with the third parameter (<reqFileName>).
> I don't have a list of all files, which should be restored. Is it possible to 
> generate a file list of the whole backup, so that I can restore the backup 
> with this list?
> 
> My second try was, to create an archive with BackupPC_tarCreate. That worked, 
> but if I extract the files (tar xvfp backup.tar), there are the file 
> permissions restored but the uid and gid aren't.
> So that's a bad solution...

Tar should try to map the owner/group names to matches on the system 
where you restore.  If that's not what you want, you need to specify 
--numeric-owner (gnutar, at least) to retain the numeric uid/gid.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com





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