On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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?
>
>    
Thanks for the reply Les

I tried to try BackupPC_tarCreate and gave up. First the file wouldn't 
run until I appended ./ in front, not obvious to me at least. Then I got 
the following:

     BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> -s 
/ > target.tar
     This returned - Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 112 (backuppc)
     Please su backuppc first.

     su backuppc
     $
     $BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> 
-s / > target.tar
     sh: 2:can not crate target.tar: Permission Denied.
     sh:2:BackupPC_tarCreate: not found.

At this point I quit in disgust.

Gary R

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