Just follow up for anyone else searching this thread (here's the link to read it in the forum: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/backuppc-21/backuppc-tarcreate-gives-error-bad-share-or-directory-123686/).
Here are the 2 important things that I learned: 1. Requesting an in-place tar restore of a file from an incremental backup in which it does not exist will create an error in the BackupPC_tarCreate program saying "bad share or directory". So make sure it REALLY is in that incremental backup or go to the most recent FULL backup to do the restore. 2. At the beginning of my restore command, I had: $sshPath -q -x -l root $host env LC_ALL=C When I ran that from the command line it asked if I really wanted to connect to this host and then for the password for "root". Since this is an Ubuntu box, I don't know the root password. I think if I had that, it would have worked or if I had used some sort of ssh credentials file, I could have gotten this to work. Since it was a localhost restore, I just got rid of that and left the rest of the command in place: sudo $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner -v -f - -C $shareName+ This WORKED!!! Many thanks to those who replied. They either gave me direct answers or reflections that helped me think in the right direction for the answers. Hopefully this will help someone else. Thanks! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by da...@leighweb.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
