Hi,

the configuration is in /etc/backuppc there is a hosts file which defines the 
active hosts. It could be enough to add the host you wish to restore to this 
file.

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----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Michele Zarri" <m.zarri AT gmail DOT com>
> Aan: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Verzonden: Woensdag 7 september 2016 18:37:42
> Onderwerp: [BackupPC-users] access backups created by different server

> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to access backups created with a different machine?
> 
> My backuppc server died, but /var/lib/backuppc was on a different disk
> so I still have full backups of localhost.
> Ideally I would like to restore the full system but it would already be
> very good to recover the mysql databases and selected system
> configuration files.
> 
> I reinstalled ubuntu, reinstalled backuppc, relinked /var/lib/backuppc but
> - No joy with the GUI (old backups do not show)
> - No joy using the command line.
> 
> (as backuppc user)
> $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 224 -s '/'
> /var/lib/mysql > /tmp/dbs.tar
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad backup number 224 for
> host localhost
> 
> - BackupPC_zcat works but I have not figured out how to restore
> user:group and permissions
> 
> Is there a way to get the GUI to read the backups (I am lazy)? If not is
> there a way to trick BackupPC_tarCreate?
> 
> Note that when I re-installed backuppc it probably wrote new files in
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ and I do not have backups of those.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michele
> 
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