[BackupPC-users] R: Re: Command line restore

Hi Holger,

thank you very much for you detailed answer.
I launched restore through web interface (and it completed well without 
issue).
During restore, I see this file:

$TopDir/pc/myserver/RestoreInfo.2

content is:

%RestoreReq = (
  'fileList' => [
    '/account/mail/account.it/username'
  ],
  'shareDest' => 'home',
  'pathHdrDest' => '/account/mail/account.it/username/',
  'num' => '196',
  'reqTime' => 1447152479,
  'shareSrc' => 'home',
  'pathHdrSrc' => '/account/mail/account.it/username',
  'hostDest' => 'myserver',
  'hostSrc' => 'myserver',
  'user' => 'backuppc'
);

so.. which command should I use next time?

Thank you again!





>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: wbppc AT parplies DOT de
>Data: 09/11/2015 18.07
>A: "absolutely_free AT libero DOT it"<absolutely_free AT libero DOT it>, 
>"General list for 
user discussion, questions and support"<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net>
>Ogg: Re: [BackupPC-users] Command line restore
>
>Hi,
>
>absolutely_free AT libero DOT it wrote on 2015-11-09 16:24:29 +0100 [[BackupPC-
users] Command line restore]:
>> Hi,I am using BackupPC 3.2.1-4 (official Debian package).Is there a way to
>> launch a restore process through command line?
>
>yes.
>
>> I mean, I don't want to create a tar / zip archive. I need to restore files
>> to original server.Thank you very much
>
>Considering the web server doesn't do the restore itself but rather instructs
>the BackupPC server to do so, there must be a way.
>
>Regards,
>Holger
>
>P.S.: In case you were wondering *how* to launch a restore via command line,
>      it's a bit complicated. The command as such is something like
>
>      BackupPC_serverMesg restore <ip> <host> <user> <request file>
>
>      where <ip> should probably be the IP address of <host> (but will
>      apparently be looked up(*) if it isn't - presuming some piece of code
>      doesn't complain first), <user> is only for logging purposes, if I
>      remember correctly, and <request file> might be somewhat difficult
>      to construct. Technically speaking, it isn't, it's just a Data::Dumper
>      dump of a Perl hash containing the relevant information. So, what is
>      the relevant information? Let's do it the easy way (for both you and
>      me): initiate a restore from the web interface (and make sure to either
>      direct it somewhere it won't do any harm or make (absolutely) sure you
>      actually can't restore; better yet, do both), and after it has 
completed
>      or failed, look in $TopDir/pc/<host> for a file named RestoreInfo.n 
(and
>      unless that turns out to be RestoreInfo.0, you can skip that part and
>      just look at one of the preexisting files straightaway). Figure out 
what
>      the individual hash entries mean and fill the values to match your 
needs.
>      You can probably get away with setting 'num' => -1 to always refer to
>      the latest backup and leaving 'reqTime' as it is (even though that 
will,
>      strictly speaking, be incorrect), but I'd test that, just to be sure.
>      Hint: for a full restore, I get "fileList => [ '/' ]" (among other hash
>      entries).
>
>      As always, you need to run BackupPC_serverMesg as the backuppc user.
>
>      Hope that helps.
>
>      (*) As I read the code, <host> will be looked up if <ip> doesn't look
>         like an IP. You might expect <ip> to be looked up, but that
>         apparently is not the case.
>


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