Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc restore failed.. huh?

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

bac...@pu... writes:

> OK got a new error for you. Today I wanted to restore something for the
> first time.. and wouldn't you know it. Errors.. no restore happening.
> 
> What I tried to do:
> 
> I back up localhost to localhost (another drive, same machine).
> Now as a test I wanted to restore /var/log/uucp.log. A 0byte file.
> 
> I tell it to restore directly to the machine localhost. 
> 
> Result in the log file:
> 
> 2005-12-03 04:20:49 Running: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 21 -s /var -t -r /log -p /log/ /log/uucp.log
> 2005-12-03 04:20:54 Restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)
> 
> Not a really informative log message..
> 
> I tried the same command as user backuppc:
> 
> backuppc@dinsdale:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h
> localhost -n
> 21 -s /var -t -r /log -p /log/ /log/uucp.log
./log/uucp.log0000644000000000000000000000000010131560714012135 0ustar
> rootrootDone: 1 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 0 errors
> backuppc@dinsdale:~$
> 
> Well, no errors, but no files created either.

Yes, an archive with one file is created - you can see some of the
archive contents in ascii, but pipe it into od -x so see it all.

> Any thoughts? My localhost.pl contains:
> 
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
> $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/etc'];
> $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/boot', '/var', '/usr/local', '/etc'];
> $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /etc/backuppc/tarcreate -v -f - -C
> $shareName+ --totals';

I would guess $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} is wrong.  What is
it set to?

Craig