The -h host is the hostname of the client that has been backed up as if there 
are multiple backups of hosts with the same file it
needs to specify which one. 

So for example say you want to pull back share of /etc from a host I suspect 
you're looking to do something alone the lines of:

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h clientserver25 -n -1 -s /etc / > 
/tmp/etc.tar

So in this -h clientserver25 refers to the name of a client you've already 
backed up that you wish to restore a tar file from
as you may have countless clients with the same files and share names. 

-n -1 refers to the most recent backup copies of files be they incrementals or 
otherwise. You don';t need to worry about 
exact paths within the backups taken, Backuppc will figure that out for you, 
all you need to do is tell it to grab files/folders from
either a specific numbered backup or (using a negative value) a copy taken 
relative to the most recent.

-s is the share name as specified in that client's config. This is coming from 
$Conf{TarShareName} = '/etc'; or equivalent for
the host you wish to restore from. The next forward slash means everything 
within that share and then redirect to a file as default is stdout.

The documentation could probably use a few typical usage examples and man pages 
for the command line tools
like this to save a bit digging around in archives of this list. 

Hope that helps

Graham

_____________________________________
Graham Smith
Technical Officer
Department of Computing
Institute of Technology Tallaght
Tallaght
Dublin 24
Ireland

-----Original Message-----
From: phil123456 [mailto:backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com] 
Sent: 06 July 2016 08:26
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

I really dont understand the usage of backuppc_createtar

"-h host         host from which the tar archive is created"

but I want to create a restore from the master , not create a tar from a remote 
host ...I am sorry, I really dont understand

besides the command used for the restore is really close to rsync

for backup :
/usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc alderaan /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender 
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /var/backup/

so for restore, it should be something similar

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