Hi,

On Thursday 22 November 2012 11:58:16 Gary Roach wrote:
  

This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full
restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer
willing to fool with the command line method. I spent days trying to get
things to work. I don't have time to fiddle with it any more. I find the
instructions vague.

The real problem is with the GUI. Check out the following:

     1. I selected the system from the left hand menu that I wish to
restore.
     2. I selected the full backup #. In this case #169. This listed the
backed up directories etc, var,             root and home.
     3. I selected all and check marks appeared by all of the directories.
     4. I hit "Restore selected files". The restore method page appeared.
     5. I selected method 3 (tar file ) and left the "Make archive
relative to /" checked since I don't                 understand what it
does. The save file screen appeared and I selected save. This created
           a restore.tar file in my /home/gary/Download directory.

Now the file that was created was 331MB. Unfortunately it should be
21GB. Backuppc only restored the directory structure and some of the
files that were in the first tier of directories. None of the lower
level files were restored. I have tried breaking up the backup into
individual directores (ie etc, var, home, root) but with essentially the
same result. Beyond about the 2nd tier transfer is unreliable. I have
checked the backup archives and they contain all of the data. The data
is there but I can't get it back.
    

This won't help you but following the steps you write above I just created a 
full tarball of one of my hosts /etc-shares. From an incremental-backup 
(incremental is about file-transfer at backup-time, not about restore) and via 
gui. And the downloaded resotre.tar contains all the files down several levels 
and with correct permissions. At least thats what ark tells me.
  

Did you take a good look at the logfiles during the creation of your restore-
file? Did you try to debug the problem? (apart from "I don't understand how you 
can work with it, its not working for me")

Have fun,

Arnold

PS: I don't want to tease you, but when deploying a backup system, the first 
thing to check is if restore works as expected and has all the needed stuff. 
And one should do that well before one needs it...

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