Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc keeps hanging on restore

This seems to be working nicely, although not at all ideal. May I ask how this 
will help me troubleshoot my issue? Given how well this method is performing, 
It does seem like it is an rsync issue, but I have tried a few versions of 
rsync and all are giving me the issue. Argh.

This method is working great to restore my backup, so thank you very much, it 
is greatly appreciated. 

I did have to change a couple of commands to make this work, for those folks 
whom stumble upon this.

First of all, I had to install netcat
Yum install nc

Then on the target box (notice I removed the -p, which was not necessary, I am 
guessing this is dependent on your distro and/or netcat version):
 nc -p 8888|tar xzvp -C /path/to/target/dir

Lastly on the backuppc box:
su backuppc        (in case you forget this must be run as the backuppc user)
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h <hostname> -n -1 -s / /|gzip| nc 
<ip/hostname of target box> 8888
I highly recommend reading the help file, although brief, should be enough to 
assist with the format of the above command. 

Thanks Carl!


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome AT real-time DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:18 AM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc keeps hanging on restore

On 07/21 06:12 , robp2175 wrote:
> The restore seems to be getting stuck on the larger files. There is plenty of 
> space on the disk.

My advice would be to try doing a restore using tar and netcat, but only 
because that's what I do and it works reliably for me. 

This would at least allow you to narrow it down to a problem with rsync, or 
BackupPC itself.

1. set a netcat process listening and piping to tar; something like:
   nc -l -p 8888|tar xzvp -C /path/to/target/dir

2. on the backuppc server, use BackupPC_tarCreate to build a tarball of the 
backup you want, pipe that through gzip, then pipe it to netcat in order to 
send it across the wire
   /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h <hostname> -n -1 -s / /|gzip| 
nc 192.168.123.123 8888

Run /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate without any arguments to get a 
(entirely too brief) help message.

If it's a Windows box you're restoring to, the above will still work, you'll 
just need the cygwin tools installed.

--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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