Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring files without backuppc

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 2/12/2010 4:40 AM, Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an old backuppc server which is no longer properly functional. I can get the server running reliably with just networking and sshd services, but if I start the backuppc service I get a kernel panic and the whole server freezes.
>
> However I need to recover a users files from this old system. I read that you can recover single files from the command line - but unfortunately I need around 70Mb's worth of files! Not really practical to do this one at a time. Please correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC Backuppc encodes files as it backs them up. Is there a way in which I could scp/rsync this users files to my desktop and decode them there?
>
> As ever all suggestions greatly appreciated.

Have you tried BackuPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zipCreate?  You should be 
able to execute them via ssh and collect the output elsewhere - or pipe 
to an appropriate extract command.

 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_restore_options


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