[BackupPC-devel] Restroing a Linux server/contents to a Windows server/share?

[Marc G. <m.g...@li...>]

I've been tasked to restore a Linux server(ukgitlab2), because one of its raid drives has failed, to a Windows server(ukntmbuildarc) so the whole office has access to it.

I went into ukgitlab2 browse backups page in BackupPC, and selected all the files to restore and then selected ukntmbuildarc to where I want it to be restored too. There's a share on ukntmbuildarc called /ukgitlab2 so the whole office has access to it.

Every time I select restore now, I get the following error in the general logs:


2017-12-18 11:11:16 Started restore on ukntmbuildarc<http://backuppc01.dsdb.int/backuppc/index.cgi?host=ukntmbuildarc> (pid=41732)
2017-12-18 11:11:21 Restore failed on ukntmbuildarc<http://backuppc01.dsdb.int/backuppc/index.cgi?host=ukntmbuildarc> (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)


Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ukntmbuildarc/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2017-12-18 11:01:00

Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\ukntmbuildarc\\C\$ -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share C$
Xfer PIDs are now 41469,41468
Domain=[DSDAMBUSTER] OS=[Windows Server 2016 Standard 14393] Server=[Windows Server 2016 Standard 6.3]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
Domain=[DSDAMBUSTER] OS=[Windows Server 2016 Standard 14393] Server=[Windows Server 2016 Standard 6.3]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
exiting after signal INT
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)


Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/ukntmbuildarc/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2017-12-18 11:01:00 (Extracting only Errors)

Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\ukntmbuildarc\\C\$ -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share C$
Xfer PIDs are now 41469,41468
[ skipped 1 lines ]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[ skipped 1 lines ]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /var/lib/backuppc/backuppc_notification.sh 0 ukntmbuildarc full ukntmbuildarc ukntmbuildarc C$ smb /usr/bin/ssh DumpPostUserCmd
exiting after signal INT
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

I tried to do a full backup on ukntmbuildarc to see if BackupPC has access to it, and it did perform a full backup of it. So it has access to it.

I tried restoring ukgitlab2 to a Linux server instead of a Windows server, and the restore worked perfeclty! So is this because I backed up ukgitlab2 using rsync, and the only way you can restore to a  Windows server is via SMB maybe?

I'm not sure on what configuration changes I need to make in order to restore a Linux server/contents to a Windows server/share?

Any help would be truly appreciated, thank you.