Hanno Zulla wrote: > Hi, > > to replace an old server, I want to restore a fairly large backup (ca. > 450 gigs) onto a new server's disk. The backup is good and complete, > according to BackupPC. > > (The new server happens to be the same system that BackupPC is installed > on, but the restore target fs is on a different disk than the spool fs.) > > The restore starts, many files are being restored on the target, > everything seems to work fine. > > But then, at some non-reproducible point during the process, the restore > simply stalls and stops to do anything. > > I'm having problems finding out why this happens. The logs are > unhelpful. No error messages. > > Where can I look for the reasons? > > > These are the symptoms: > > - system load goes down to near 0 > > - no new files are being written to the target > > - "top" and "ps ax" tell me that "BackupPC_restore" is running > > - "lsof" shows that "BackupPC_restore" has one file open and "rsync" has > two files open; these files do not change for several minutes > > (usually, when BackupPC is working, one can use "lsof" to watch its > activity on the file system) > > - the BackupPC web interface tells me "restore in progress" > > - there is no useful information found in the logs - I looked in > "/var/log/BackupPC/LOG" as well as the syslog
I'm not sure why this would happen, but you should be able to work around it by using BackupPC_tarcreate http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_restore_options to generate a tar image that you can pipe to a tar extract. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
