On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roach<gary719_li...@verizon.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems >>> and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts >>> didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. >>> I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started >>> a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper >>> directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then >>> tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory >>> strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can >>> even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause >>> this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved >>> it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work >>> form me. >>> >> I can't think of anything that would cause a problem like that, but >> can you make a tar image with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line tool >> on the server and restore that on the client machine? >> >> > Thanks for the reply Les > > I tried to try BackupPC_tarCreate and gave up. First the file wouldn't > run until I appended ./ in front, not obvious to me at least. Then I got > the following: > > BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> -s > / > target.tar > This returned - Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 112 (backuppc) > Please su backuppc first.
Simple error ... the error message even told you how to fix it. > su backuppc > $ > $BackupPC_tarCreate -n 169 -h <the backup computer with the data> > -s / > target.tar > sh: 2:can not crate target.tar: Permission Denied. > sh:2:BackupPC_tarCreate: not found. Basic *nix permissions issue. You switched to user backuppc, but you are trying to write to a directory that backuppc does not have permissions for (since you started as root, I'm guessing you are still in root's home directory). Try doing "cd ~backuppc" and then running the command again. This will move you to backuppc's home directory where you will (presumably) have permission to create a file. > At this point I quit in disgust. Don't give up so fast. You're almost there. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
