Re: [BackupPC-users] Choosing directories to restore on CGI interface

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

On 10/18/2016 5:36 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the first real restore that I have had to do took a surprising amount 
> of effort, so I figure I took the wrong approach somewhere. This is 
> what I did:
>
>  - to start with, the host was set up with rsync and had quite a few 
> $RsyncShareName directories specified e.g.
>     /cygdrive/d/dev
>     /cygdrive/d/workspace
>     /cygdrive/d/Documents
>
>  - in the CGI interface restore screen, I had to choose each one 
> individually, select all files, create the restore job, and specify 
> the target directory on the new host.
>
>  - I had to do a 'mkdir' for each restore job to create its root 
> directory, and chmod the dir to 777 - (I am restoring a Windows backup 
> onto a Linux box)
>
> Is there a way to do all this in one go, or at least to obviate the 
> need to create the target directories?

The main target directory that you are restoring into must exist. Rsync 
will create the subdirectories as it goes.

I would say the main problem is that you specified so many specific 
shares.  You would probably be better off if you specified fewer shares 
and then used a combination of BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude to 
determine exactly what is being backed up.

For example:

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
     '/cygdrive/d'
];

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
     '/cygdrive/d' => [
         '/dev',
         '/workspace',
         '/Documents'
     ]
};

With this setup, you can do a single restore and simply select '/dev', 
'/workspace', and '/Documents' from the GUI.  You will have to make sure 
the root directory for these exists (/cygdrive/d, or wherever you are 
putting them for the restore), but rsync will create the individual 
directories as it goes.

-- 
Bowie