On 07/21 02:41 , Pelletier, Robert wrote:
> 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.

Since I always just stop at doing backups this way (I don't trust giving the
backup server write permissions to the client), all I can say is that at
least we've narrowed your problem down to something in the rsync
implementation.

I have seen rsync hang occasionally when backing up a client, so seeing it
hang when restoring to a client doesn't surprise me.

> 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. 

Yeah, I wrote those instructions quite a few years ago and filed them away
in a document, and haven't updated them since. The netcat options changed
slightly since then.

> Thanks Carl!

You're welcome.

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

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