Can you try
/usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -h fshac1 -n 530 -s /home hefinw
> /backup/hefin.zip
please?
Does hostname=fshac1 makes sense to you?
Luis A. Paulo
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Huw Wyn Jones <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a little confused by the usage of BackupPC_zipCreate
>
> The directory I need a zip of is:
>
> /backup/data/pc/fshac1/530/f%2fhome/fhefinw
>
> The command I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to run (as user backuppc) is:
>
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -h localhost -n 530 -s fshac1
> fhefinw > /backup/hefin.zip
>
> The error is:
>
> "bad backup number 530 for host localhost"
>
> I guess I missed something out here!
>
> TIA
>
> Huw
>
>
> --
> Huw Wyn Jones
> Systems Administrator
> Coleg Meirion Dwyfor
>
> [email protected]
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Les Mikesell" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, 12 February, 2010 15:57:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
> Portugal
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring files without backuppc
>
> On 2/12/2010 4:40 AM, Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have an old backuppc server which is no longer properly functional. I
> can get the server running reliably with just networking and sshd services,
> but if I start the backuppc service I get a kernel panic and the whole
> server freezes.
> >
> > However I need to recover a users files from this old system. I read that
> you can recover single files from the command line - but unfortunately I
> need around 70Mb's worth of files! Not really practical to do this one at a
> time. Please correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC Backuppc encodes files as it
> backs them up. Is there a way in which I could scp/rsync this users files to
> my desktop and decode them there?
> >
> > As ever all suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Have you tried BackuPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zipCreate? You should be
> able to execute them via ssh and collect the output elsewhere - or pipe
> to an appropriate extract command.
>
>
>
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_restore_options
>
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
>
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