I have the same issue when restoring large amounts of data, so I just use
the command line interface. I typically backup to DVD so I pull a tar.gz
off and split it out into 100MB chunks, and then par2 it at 25% and drop
those on DVD.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Ishan Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi friends ..
>
> Thanks in advance to all of you guys...
>
> I am new to BackupPC .. and i have done a lot of try and error for
> successfully haveing my data back ..
>
> BUT I AM NOTABLE TO RESTORE MY DATA THROUGH WEB INTERFACE
>
> When i select files and click on restore then it says that
>
> "Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of localhost"
>
> but my files are not restored .. and i got the following error in my log
> file...
>
> 2008-07-11 14:25:41 restore started below directory /backbpo
> 2008-07-11 14:25:46 restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)
>
> ....
>
> "Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of localhost"
>
> so any idea why its happening ?
>
> i would like to provide u people some out puts and some of my configuration
> ..
>
>
> here we go....
>
> ---->>>uname -a
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a
> Linux ishan 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> ---->>>i m using Ubuntu 8.04- the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008.
>
> ---->>>this is my /etc/sudoers file's entry
>
> # User privilege specification
> root ALL=(ALL) ALL
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar
>
> ---->>>/etc/passwd has following entry....
>
> backuppc:x:1003:1003::/home/backuppc:/bin/bash
>
> ---->>> i have done ssh without root passwd configuration by generation
> public/private key for my localhost
>
> i.e i am able to ssh to my own pc with root passwd
>
> proof...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ ssh -l root 192.168.0.96 whoami
> root
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$
>
> here i dont even prompt for passwd ..so this is also done ....
>
> ---->>>
>
> i have my configuration in /etc/backuppc directory
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /etc/backuppc/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/backuppc$ ls -l
> total 100
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root 414 2007-10-25 01:54 apache.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root 77591 2007-10-25 01:54 config.pl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root 2238 2007-10-25 01:54 hosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root 0 2008-07-10 15:03 htgroup
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc root 23 2008-07-10 15:03 htpasswd
> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data 448 2008-07-11 11:23 localhost.pl
> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data 450 2008-07-11 10:26 localhost.pl.old
> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data 0 2008-07-10 15:26 LOCK
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/backuppc$
>
>
>
> ---->>> my localhost.pl file
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/backuppc$ cat localhost.pl
> #
> # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
> #
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
>
> $Conf{TarShareName} = [
> '/backbpo'
> ];
>
> $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -c -v -f - -C
> $shareName --totals';
>
> # remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
> # needed for remote backups but may break local ones
> $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
> $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
> '/backbpo'
> ];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/backuppc$
>
>
> ---->>>
> this is my directory whose backup i m taking
>
> its /backbpo
>
> #ls -l /backbpo
>
> drwxrwxrwx 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-07-11 12:44 backbpo
>
> #cd /backbpo
>
> ls -l
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-10 15:24 3
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-10 15:24 4
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-10 15:24 5
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-10 15:24 6
> drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-07-10 18:27 test
>
> AND this is what my backup is
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# ls -l
> total 12
> -rw-r----- 2 backuppc backuppc 24 2008-07-11 13:31 attrib
> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 516 2008-07-11 13:31 backupInfo
> drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-07-11 13:31 f%2fbackbpo
>
> i have also tried to give 777 permissions to f%2fbackbpo firectory .. then
> also no help..
>
> ----->>
>
> this is my disk usage ..
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3 20G 2.9G 16G 16% /
> varrun 474M 116K 474M 1% /var/run
> varlock 474M 0 474M 0% /var/lock
> udev 474M 56K 474M 1% /dev
> devshm 474M 12K 474M 1% /dev/shm
> lrm 474M 38M 437M 8%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda1 487M 29M 433M 7% /boot
> /dev/sda2 19G 9.1G 8.4G 52% /data
> /dev/sda5 15G 407M 14G 3% /var
>
>
> ------>>
>
> this is my hosts file
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3# cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 ishan.com ishan
> 192.168.0.96 ishan.com ishan
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>
>
> ...................................
>
> i am getting my restore fail everytime ..
>
> 2008-07-11 14:46:13 restore started below directory /backbpo
> 2008-07-11 14:46:17 restore failed (BackupPC_tarCreate failed)
>
>
>
> ------------->>>
>
> last i have also tried to do something nesty with command line but i m
> getting this error in that also ..
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/3#
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/2/f%2fbackbpo/f2
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat: can't open
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/2/f%2fbackbpo/f2
>
>
>
>
>
>
> SSSOOOOO please help me out from this ...
>
>
> and do tell me if u want some other information...
>
>
> Regards
> Ishan
>
>
>
>
>
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