[Box Backup] Restoring a corrupted archive?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Magnus,

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Magnus Homann wrote:

> I have now rsycned the data back (33 GB, about four days including such 
> exciting events as ISP taking down the line for maintenace, and the 
> remote machine had a complete kernel breakdown...)
> 
> I did bbackupstore check <nr> fix, and got quite a few directories in 
> lost+found0 (about 200). What to do with them?

Download them with bbackupquery and check their contents to see if they're 
useful, otherwise let the store delete them.

> Is there a way to restore just 'missing' files as reported by "compare 
> -aq", or do I have to delete the entire set of files I have still left, 
> and do a complete restore?

You could generate a list of bbackupquery commands from the compare output 
with sed.

> The documentation.txt is a bit unclear what "restore -d" does.

Yes, sorry, it was discussed here on the mailing list this month, I 
think, please check the archives.

Cheers, Chris.
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