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From: Peter Walter [mailto:pwal...@itlsys.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 7:11 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] restores keep failing
Chris Baker wrote:
I will restoring onto Windows. Thus, my USB drive
Sometime ago I had a similar problem while backing up/restoring to windows
machines. It had to do with with a time out in SMB (20s) for file access,
sometimes i had to backup/restore large files and the antivirus would lock the
file for more than that and SMB would timeout.
Just disabled AV
: [BackupPC-users] restores keep failing
Chris Baker wrote:
I doubt if anyone can help diagnose the problem without a lot more
details regarding the way you are trying to restore and what error you
get.
In some cases, it simply says backup abandoned. Sometimes it says that the
backup has failed
It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or so. The
restores just quit for no apparent reason.
I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by Monday
morning. What should I do to make sure my restores are successful? I simply
can't afford to have my
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Chris Baker wrote:
It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or
so. The restores just quit for no apparent reason.
I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by
Monday morning. What should I do to
Chris Baker wrote:
It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or so. The
restores just quit for no apparent reason.
I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by Monday
morning. What should I do to make sure my restores are successful? I simply
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 04:03:31 +1000 on Monday, June 15, 2009:
Chris Baker wrote:
It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or
so. The restores just quit for no apparent reason.
I have to restore about 290 GB of files here, and I need to do it by
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:58:41PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 04:03:31 +1000 on Monday, June 15, 2009:
Chris Baker wrote:
It seems that I can not reliably restore for more than two hours or
so. The restores just quit for no apparent reason.
You are correct. I do need to provide more information. It was rude not to.
My backups are smb. I am restoring to a Windows server. The old server failed.
I am restoring from Thursday night's backup.
3) Consider restoring to a local USB HDD, and then transport the USB HDD
to the remote machine
I doubt if anyone can help diagnose the problem without a lot more
details regarding the way you are trying to restore and what error you
get.
In some cases, it simply says backup abandoned. Sometimes it says that the
backup has failed. I also got a BackupPC_tarcreate failed message.
I tried
Chris Baker wrote:
I will restoring onto Windows. Thus, my USB drive needs to be readable by
both Linux and Windows. I have mounted USB drives like this before, using
Fuse and so on.
Use Ext2IFS on the Windows box. http://www.fs-driver.org/
Peter
Chris Baker wrote:
I doubt if anyone can help diagnose the problem without a lot more
details regarding the way you are trying to restore and what error you
get.
In some cases, it simply says backup abandoned. Sometimes it says that the
backup has failed. I also got a BackupPC_tarcreate
Chris Baker wrote at about 18:19:13 -0500 on Sunday, June 14, 2009:
You are correct. I do need to provide more information. It was rude not to.
My backups are smb. I am restoring to a Windows server. The old server
failed. I am restoring from Thursday night's backup.
3) Consider
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