Hi there, On Mon, 6 Apr 2026, Emmett Culley wrote:
... If I attempt to restore a single file, the files gets restored and the log tells me one file was restored.
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I am able to restore to a tar file then restore the files in a directory, so I know the files are in the archive.
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It doesn't matter what host I try to restore, I can only restore one file into an existing directory. I use both rsyncd and rsync methods and neither one can restore multiple files. ... google ... nothing ... Any suggestion would be appreciated.
The place to start is probably the BackupPC documentation: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html especially this part: 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from any backup directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives for selected files or directories from any backup can also be downloaded from the CGI interface. Finally, direct restore to the client machine (using smb or tar) for selected files or directories is also supported from the CGI interface. 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- It looks to me like things are behaving as documented. It says that you can restore directories using SMB or tar, but it doesn't say that you can do it using rsync/rsyncd. My personal feeling is that in any case rather than trying to restore directly from the Web interface, to avoid nasty surprises I'd *always* grab an archive and save it in some temporary directory. Then I could extract whatever files I needed and put them (carefully) wherever they needed to be, and then check that the ownerships, permissions etc. are as needed. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
