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Don't keep trying different versions. That's just gonna waste your time and cause frustration. ;-)
Are you sure the backup file(s) is a Virtualmin domain backup, rather than a filesystem dump or some other form of backup? Virtualmin is very specific about what it will restore--it doesn't know anything about Webmin's other backup modules. (And it'll also generate a file called "virtualmin.tar.gz" that is not a domain backup--it just contains Virtualmin configuration data, unrelated to any domains. Restoration of that file is done differently.)
If it is a Virtualmin backup, then we'll need to see one of the backups that's exhibiting this problem. You might want to file a ticket and attach one of your backups (after switching the ticket to private). Or you can file a ticket and email Jamie or me a copy, or make it available on a website somewhere. Obviously, smaller is better. ;-)
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Your right. I took a closer look and found it was a tar image of my entire /home directory. I can not find any tar.gz virtualmin backup files. I extracted the tar file into a seperate area so I atleaste have the /home files. Now without the server backups I will have to recreate each virtual server by hand. I could have sworn that I was backing up the servers. They should have been in the /home area and would have been included in the tar file.
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Found them. They were on a partition that was not mounted yet. :)
Thank you for your help. It got me thinking in the right direction.
Getting error messages containing:
Wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
Wrote only 3584 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header
Cannot write: No space left on device
tar: Skipping to next header
Cannot open: No such file or directory
Error exit delayed from previous errors
There is plenty of space on the HD. I was able to extract a 4GB tar file with no problem. The virtualmin backup is only 768MB. /tmp only has 600MB of free space but the I get the error message pretty quick and it was able to extract the 4GB tar file earlier. The server only has 256MB Ram at the moment. Any Ideas? Would a updated virtualmin help? Currently trying to use 3.48 as I believe this was the version I was using.
Found the problem. ./tmp was to small. I reconfigured webmin to use a temp folder in a much larger partition. The old temp folder was located in a partition that was to small and prevented virtualmin from being able to decompress the backup file. Can't restore what you can't read. Extracting my /home dir backup tar file must not have required a temp dir.