On 07/21 02:41 , Pelletier, Robert wrote: > This seems to be working nicely, although not at all ideal. May I ask how > this will help me troubleshoot my issue? Given how well this method is > performing, It does seem like it is an rsync issue, but I have tried a few > versions of rsync and all are giving me the issue. Argh.
Since I always just stop at doing backups this way (I don't trust giving the backup server write permissions to the client), all I can say is that at least we've narrowed your problem down to something in the rsync implementation. I have seen rsync hang occasionally when backing up a client, so seeing it hang when restoring to a client doesn't surprise me. > This method is working great to restore my backup, so thank you very much, it > is greatly appreciated. > > I did have to change a couple of commands to make this work, for those folks > whom stumble upon this. > > First of all, I had to install netcat > Yum install nc > > Then on the target box (notice I removed the -p, which was not necessary, I > am guessing this is dependent on your distro and/or netcat version): > nc -p 8888|tar xzvp -C /path/to/target/dir > > Lastly on the backuppc box: > su backuppc (in case you forget this must be run as the backuppc user) > /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h <hostname> -n -1 -s / /|gzip| > nc <ip/hostname of target box> 8888 > I highly recommend reading the help file, although brief, should be enough to > assist with the format of the above command. Yeah, I wrote those instructions quite a few years ago and filed them away in a document, and haven't updated them since. The netcat options changed slightly since then. > Thanks Carl! You're welcome. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
