On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:26, you wrote: > David writes: > > > It's ok to delete status.pl. Over time the status will get refreshed. > > > > > > It sounds like you deleted the archives file from the pc/HOST > > > directories. There isn't a way to restore those. But they > > > aren't used by BackupPC - they are only there for logging > > > purposes. > > > > As it turns out, I had to copy pc/HOST/backups.backup to pc/HOST/backups > > without the first two lines that corresponded to the two archives that > > I had deleted. Until I did that I could see no archives in the backuppc > > application. Of course I had to delete the empty status.pl file too. > > Sorry, I misunderstood your terminology - I thought you were referring to > BackupPC's archives (not the backups). In BackupPC 3.0.0 you can recover > a missing or corrupted backups file using the BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary > script. > > That script uses meta data that is saved in each backup's directory. > That meta data is stored automatically with each new backup, and > pre-3.0.0 backups have the meta data added on each Saturday night > if you are already running 3.0.0beta. > > If you have just upgraded to 3.0.0 and run BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary, > you will need to use the -l option which tries to get the necessary > date by parsing the log files.
Thank you Craig. I'll know next time. David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
