I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed 4.1.1
as a proposed solution in our environment. My previous experience has been
with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences with.
My question/observation is this:
In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being backed
up by BackupPC.
Pass 1:
In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’, I navigated to the most recent
backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore
selected files”.
The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir (testserver, /, /)
and hit “Start Restore”. The final confirmation screen showed:
You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt
However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”. Not exactly
what I was expecting. I did this test twice to be sure.
Pass 2:
In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the
restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list
of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and
proceeded with the restore. Once again, I navigated through the next
screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:
You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt/
In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct
location, ’testserver:/opt’.
I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest
what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first
test case. Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.
Thanks.
I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed 4.1.1
as a proposed solution in our environment. My previous experience has been
with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences with.
My question/observation is this:
In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being backed
up by BackupPC.
Pass 1:
In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’, I navigated to the most recent
backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore
selected files”.
The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir (testserver, /, /)
and hit “Start Restore”. The final confirmation screen showed:
You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt
However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”. Not exactly
what I was expecting. I did this test twice to be sure.
Pass 2:
In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the
restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list
of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and
proceeded with the restore. Once again, I navigated through the next
screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:
You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
Original file/dir Will be restored to
testserver://opt testserver://opt/
In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct
location, ’testserver:/opt’.
I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest
what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first
test case. Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.
Thanks.
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