On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1 AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
>
> Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems
> and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts
> didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system.
> I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started
> a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper
> directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then
> tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory
> strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can
> even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause
> this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved
> it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work
> form me.

I can't think of anything that would cause a problem like that, but
can you make a tar image with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line tool
on the server and restore that on the client machine?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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