On 11/14/2012 01:42 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Simple error ... the error message even told you how to fix it.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
> Basic *nix permissions issue. You switched to user backuppc, but you
> are trying to write to a directory that backuppc does not have
> permissions for (since you started as root, I'm guessing you are still
> in root's home directory). Try doing "cd ~backuppc" and then running
> the command again. This will move you to backuppc's home directory
> where you will (presumably) have permission to create a file.
>
>
>> At this point I quit in disgust.
>>
> Don't give up so fast. You're almost there.
>
>
OK, I did the following:
mkdir /tar
chown backuppc:backuppc /tar a place to store the tar file
cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the
BackupPC_tarCreate script
su backuppc logged in as backuppc
then ran:
$./BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h localhost -s / > /tar/target.tar
The script ran, printed out the help menu and created an empty target.tar
There were 2 comments about depreciated commands in the script but no
errors.
Now what.
Gary R
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