BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems

2012-06-19 01:08:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host tar and hardlink problems
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:07:30 -0500
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Steve Kieu <msh.computing AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Directory name  (rootfs) is generated by backuppc - It think It is based on
> the rsynd module name (if I named it differently then the foldername is
> changed as well).
>
> When doing restore and select download as Tar archive, all is fine, the tar
> archive have no hardlink in it, and I can extract it correctly. I noticed
> that there is no top level folder rootfs anymore.
>
> So there might be somewhere when doing archive it add the top folder (from
> looking at the frootfs and generated folder name rootfs and put all thins
> under it, that confused tar.

I think the problem is that your rsync module name doesn't match the
mountpoint.  I don't know if that is even possible for '/'.  But the
error message still does not make sense to me.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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