On 9/23/2010 10:05 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> [..]
>
>> Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using
>> BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI?
>
> No, sorry, I've not tried zip yet.
>
> I'll first try to understand why things work on one but not the other system.
>
>
> I've by found a windows XP host who friendly accepts the restores sent to him
> -- including the "problem files".
>
> My guess is that the Vista Machine has strange permissions set for some
> files.
>
> Does Backuppc restore the permissions, as well? (I.e. could there be a
> situation in which a directory is created, made read-only, and then files are
> written into it?)
I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix equivalents. It
doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way to work around the
existing ones - so you may have files that you can read in the backups
but can't write back over the existing copy
>
>
> I'll check the file system of the XP host.
>
> M.
>
>> -Robin
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote:
>>> Update:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote:
>>>> Update:
>>>>
>>>> tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big
>>>
>>> fails
>>>
>>>> cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work
>>>
>>> fails
>>>
>>> But:
>>> using the 'i' option for
>>>
>>> -i, --ignore-zeros
>>>
>>> ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)
>>>
>>> makes tar wander through the archive even thought it might have detected
>>> EOF markers (i.e. "two consecutive zero-filled records" according to
>>> the wikipedia page of the tar format)
>>>
>>> I observed several warnings in my cmdline:
>>> tar tfi restore.tar |wc -l
>>>
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>> 387781
>>>
>>> I can only hope this works and helps others.
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
>>>> And I thought windows was terrible...
>>>>
>>>> M.
>>>>
>>>> On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>> On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> btw: this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same
>>>>>> errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh.
>>>>>
>>>>> But windows specific? Are you sure the windows user has write
>>>>> access and the file isn't locked by something else having it open?
>>>>>
>>>>>> And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how
>>>>>> super great backuppc was...
>>>>>
>>>>> There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through
>>>>> a browser and restoring from that.
>
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