On 4/6/26 7:26 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
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.
:)
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.
:)
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.
This used to work flawlessly. Select a directory to restore, click on the
restore buttons, files are restored on the host as expected. What changed?
I will read the docs, but I doubt they will explain why restore from the web UI
no longer work as it once did.
Why would the support restore via SMB but not rsync. Makes no sense to me.
Emmett
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