From: Craig B. <cba...@us...> - 2005-12-03 04:02:48
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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 |