Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore root share with "*" and missing icons .png

[Nils B. (Lemonbit) <ni...@le...>]

CoyoteTM-INC-Szeki wrote:

> I am using currently the 3.0 version (Ubuntu, 7.10)
>
> First Question:
>
> How can I restore a whole backup?
>
> 1. I created a linux backup, with "/" (root) share. It backs up  
> everytging
> 2. If I want to restore something, i have do:
>
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h 192.168.0.11 -n 0 -s  
> \/  -t etc/ >bambi.tar
>
> BUT I want to put the whole backup into one tar:
>
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h 192.168.0.11 -n 0 -s  
> \/  -t * >bambi.tar
> The "*" is not works.

Have you tried "/"? Also, you could use the web interface to restore  
the backup. If you really want to generate a tar archive it might be  
better to do this on the command line to avoid things like browser  
timeouts.

> It is wise to use only one share? There is any performance, or other  
> reason to separate the shares?
> I back up Mail and Web servers too, with many-many small files. Do I  
> need to use more than one share here?

Not really. You can break machines up in multiple backups, so  
individual backups will take less time, but of course you'll need to  
run more backups. It's a trade-off.

> Second Question:
>
> I have some missing icons, and I cant find them on the CVS tree, but  
> the code uses them, these are:
>
> icon-chardev.png
> icon-fifo.png

Our BackupPC 3.1.0 installation doesn't have these icons either. Where  
do you see missing icons?

> And Last:
>
> Witch dirs, or files are commonly advised not to backup? :
>
> /tmp dir, its ok

Decide for yourself.

> /proc dir ?

Yeah, exclude that one. Also, if you have a /sys exclude that as well.

> /dev ?

You can back that up.

> ?

We also exclude /var/named/run-root/proc (/proc in a chrooted  
environment) en and /mnt, but you might want to backup /mnt. Decide  
for yourself.

Nils Breunese.