On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:54 AM, David Williams
<dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com> wrote:
> I am hoping that someone here can help me work through an issue that I am
> having trying to restore some files.  This is an old backup, maybe 1 year
> old and I have just installed Mageia 3 on a new machine.  I have gotten to
> the point whereby I can see my previous back ups, which were done from the
> local machine and I am trying to restore to the local machine too.  To begin
> with I am just trying to restore a single file.  The command is below, along
> with the error messages.
>
> Seems that the first command, that beings with /usr/bin/ssh is expecting a
> password, or at least that what happens when I try it manually.  Not really
> sure how to proceed from here.
> Any help would be much appreciated, also this is just a personal back up and
> I don't have too much backuppcPC / Linux knowledge.
>
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root linuxpc env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -x -p
> --numeric-owner --same-owner -v -f - -C /restores
> Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h linuxpc -n 612 -s
> /photos -t -r /Pili -p /photos/ /Pili/IMG_0558.JPG
> Xfer PIDs are now 13163,13164
> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
> tarCreate: Unable to write to output file (Connection reset by peer)
> restore failed: BackupPC_tarCreate failed

That looks like you haven't set up the ssh key for backuppc to execute
as root on the target.  But, to grab a single file it might be easier
to download through a browser and then copy it where you want.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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