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By: Jonnyboy

Jonnyboy — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:11:15 +0000

One more note: this blog does not get the “- -” correct, notice it merges the into “–”.

By: Jonnyboy

Jonnyboy — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:09:03 +0000

Can you suggest what the TarClientRestoreCmd should be?

I also struggled with this and finally create a second script and name it tar-restore

!/bin/sh -f

exec /bin/tar -x -f - "$@"

Make it executable

add it to the sudoers list (visudo) backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: /etc/backuppc/tar-restore

then add this to localhost.pl $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /etc/backuppc/tar-restore -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner -v -C $shareName';

There may be other ways to accomplish this, but this worked for me. One note, if you restore to an alternate location, the path must exit prior to running the restore, it can not create the path.

By: Jonnyboy

Jonnyboy — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:34:15 +0000

These small changes are necessary to get the incremental backups to works properly. The should have been reflected in the BackupPC documentation long ago. I am glad that I found this page. Using the BackupPC docs will get the full backups to work, but not the incrementals.

Thank you very much.

By: tmwsiy

tmwsiy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:16:09 +0000

Thanks for this!

Can you suggest what the TarClientRestoreCmd should be?

By: 3vi1

3vi1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:48:04 +0000

Thanks for writing this up – very informative.

By: Domenico Diacono

Domenico Diacono — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:48:15 +0000

Thanks a lot! Why don't you submit this corrections to the developers of BackupPC, so they can include it in the docs?

Thanks again Domenico

By: Martin Kurtsson

Martin Kurtsson — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:44:25 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you for this information. Solved problems Ive been struggling with a long time.

Thanks again

By: j1m

j1m — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:49:10 +0000

In your example would it be possible to add the multi volume option -M and also -F for automatically running a script to chagne the tapes... "mtx -f /dev/sg1 next" (to auto change to next tape on my autoloader), rather than waiting for user input after tape change ?

regards

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