On 1/28/2014 4:36 AM, dleigh wrote: > I've never gotten backuppc in-place restores to work. I've been using > backuppc for several years now, but I'm just now getting around to trying to > figure that part out! > > Anyway, here's what I've tried and my results (command line under su > backuppc): > > > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 828 -s /home -t > -r /leidav -p /leidav/ /leidav/zlink.txt > > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad share or directory > '/home//leidav/zlink.txt' > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 1 errors > > > So this command that I'm using is the command that the backuppc web interface > creates when I select a file to restore while browsing a backup. So if the > COMMAND is wrong, that's a bit annoying, but at least backuppc allows you to > change the command. Hopefully it's not a problem in BackupPC_tarCreate - > that would be even more annoying! > > Because it was putting "//" double slashes in the path, I thought that this > was perhaps the problem. So I screwed around with the command by removing > various slashes to see what the outcome was. The error was always the same > even though the path DID reflect the changes that I made. Here are those > tries: > > > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 828 -s /home -t > -r /leidav -p leidav/ /leidav/zlink.txt > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad share or directory > '/home//leidav/zlink.txt' > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 1 errors > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 828 -s /home -t > -r /leidav -p /leidav/ leidav/zlink.txt > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad share or directory > '/home/leidav/zlink.txt' > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 1 errors > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 828 -s /home -t > -r /leidav -p /leidav /leidav/zlink.txt > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad share or directory > '/home//leidav/zlink.txt' > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 1 errors > $ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n 828 -s home -t > -r /leidav -p /leidav/ /leidav/zlink.txt > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate: bad share or directory > 'home//leidav/zlink.txt' > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 1 errors > > > Searches for "bad share or directory" have not turned up any useful > information for me. Any ideas out there about what it's really complaining > about?
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