Re: Network restore with -s option

[On 26 May, @19:12, robs_maill wrote in "[hdup-user] Network restore wi ..."]
> hdup -s home/useraccount restore hostname date /home/tmp @[email protected]
> 
> Is this enabled for network restore?
> 
> I attempted to use it the other day and it restored the whole archive (from the
> root tree onwards) to the remote machine.
> 
> Luckily I had plenty of room. 
> 
> also, in the documentation it's clear that backups occur on one host and are
> "pushed" to a backup server. 
> 
> My friend and I attempted the restore on the host needing the data from the
> backup server (i.e. a pull). This did not work. 
> It kept complaining the archives did not exist.
> Later we hopped on the backup server and ran the command there to find it worked.
> 
> Are we doing something wrong or is it always considered a push operation?
> 
> If the restore needs to happen from the backup server, 
> can this be placed in the documentation?

quick answer, it's push and push (if I remember correctly, since I
implemented this I never used it myself...), but you push a backup
file to a server. If you restore, you push the archive/file back FROM
the server TO the client (so the other way around).

But I'll come back to this topic,

grtz Miek