On 4/7/26 5:16 AM, jbk wrote:
On 4/5/26 12:02 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
Recently I attempted to restore a directory and all it's files to a host. All
that was restored was the top directory. None of the files or sub-directories
were restored.
The log indicated that zero files were restored.
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.
I search via google and can find nothing that clues me into where to look.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Emmett
Sorry not to think of this earlier but it is important to understand. If your definition
of a share is just "/", the root file system then you will have no backups of
files and folders in shares that are on a separate partition such as /home if it is a
mountpoint. It will backkup the folder name that defines the mount but will not descend.
You have to define /home as a separate share to backup. This is done to avoid the case
where the same network share is mounted on multiple machines or in multiple user
directories thus creating unnecessary churn backing up the same directory multiple times.
In all cases the files I need are backed up, and so are in the archive. I only
back up machine specific files using defined shares to get only what I need to
restore.
Emmett
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