Re: [Bobs-devel] Restore

[Joe Z. <jz...@co...>]

Leonardo Stevanato wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>      I'm using bobs in a local machine for testing, and I decided to 
> use nfs to backup and restore, because it seens to be easier to use. 
> Everything  went ok until the restore part. Bobs recognize everything, 
> incremental, files backuped, etc. But when i try to restore, it return 
> an error saying bobs couldn´t connect to the remote server. What can 
> it be? I'm using in just one machine to learn how to use, is there any 
> problens with it? Doesn't bobs work locally? The check configuration 
> process was ok. Just restore doesn't work. I'm using Red Hat 9.

I didn't know use could use nfs on the local machine. The exact error 
messages would be nice to see. What does your bobs.log say?

>
>     One more thing! Does someone did a restore process using any other 
> process that is not samba or nfs? If someone have a solution using 
> rsync, sftp or any other method that is not samba or nfs, can you 
> share it with me? I would appreciate it.
>
>                       Thanks!
>
>                                Leonardo

An rsync or sftp restore is planned. For now, you can manually restore 
with either. The easiest way I've found so far is to
1) Open konqueror
2) Split the window in two
3) Browse to the bobsdata directory in the left pane
4) In the right pane sftp://your.server
5) Then you can drag and drop files from bobsdata to the other server.

Jochen Metzger taught me that trick.

Cheers,
Joe Zacky