From: Gary R. <gar...@ve...> - 2012-11-23 17:57:45
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On 11/22/2012 12:32 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 22 November 2012 11:58:16 Gary Roach wrote: > >> This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full >> restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer >> willing to fool with the command line method. I spent days trying to get >> things to work. I don't have time to fiddle with it any more. I find the >> instructions vague. >> >> The real problem is with the GUI. Check out the following: >> >> 1. I selected the system from the left hand menu that I wish to >> restore. >> 2. I selected the full backup #. In this case #169. This listed the >> backed up directories etc, var, root and home. >> 3. I selected all and check marks appeared by all of the directories. >> 4. I hit "Restore selected files". The restore method page appeared. >> 5. I selected method 3 (tar file ) and left the "Make archive >> relative to /" checked since I don't understand what it >> does. The save file screen appeared and I selected save. This created >> a restore.tar file in my /home/gary/Download directory. >> >> Now the file that was created was 331MB. Unfortunately it should be >> 21GB. Backuppc only restored the directory structure and some of the >> files that were in the first tier of directories. None of the lower >> level files were restored. I have tried breaking up the backup into >> individual directores (ie etc, var, home, root) but with essentially the >> same result. Beyond about the 2nd tier transfer is unreliable. I have >> checked the backup archives and they contain all of the data. The data >> is there but I can't get it back. >> > This won't help you but following the steps you write above I just created a > full tarball of one of my hosts /etc-shares. From an incremental-backup > (incremental is about file-transfer at backup-time, not about restore) and via > gui. And the downloaded resotre.tar contains all the files down several levels > and with correct permissions. At least thats what ark tells me. > My backup system is running Wheezy and my system being backed up is running Squeeze. > Did you take a good look at the logfiles during the creation of your restore- > file? Did you try to debug the problem? (apart from "I don't understand how you > can work with it, its not working for me") > > Have fun, > > Arnold > > PS: I don't want to tease you, but when deploying a backup system, the first > thing to check is if restore works as expected and has all the needed stuff. > And one should do that well before one needs it... Yes. Anyone doing backup work should have your PS stamped on their forehead or there butt which ever is closer to their brains. I think in my case its probably the latter. I started thinking that all of the GUI information runs through Apache2 so I turned logging up to debug and made another attempt at creating a tar file. Lo and behold, I got the following error message in the Apache error log: [Date stuff] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Out of memory! referrer: http//backupsystem/backuppc/index.cgi I then opened a systems monitor program, re-ran things again and watched the system ram max out and then the swap file start filling up. When the swap file got to about 1.2GB the process quit. The swap file should be about 2 GB so I am not sure what is going on here. If the problem is with my Apache setup it might explain why no one else is having the problem. Any ideas? Gary R. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project:http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > |