RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ1 to RaQ2 upgrade

["Steven Glogger" <steven@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff

I have the same problem....It would be nice, if it's so simple to backup it
and restore. If it's only webfiles there's no problem. But if you have to
move the users to you have to do following things:

1. create on new raq the virtual-host.
2. Create the users too (the password you can move by copying the entry from
one shadow-file to the new one (only the crypted password!!!).
3. Then look if there were any auto-responders or e-mail forwardings....
4. Tar the files from the old raq and copy it to the new raq and untar
them...
5. Chown the files to the right owner..
6. Change the dns-settings to the new one (if you have)
7. Finish :-)

So....more you have email-adresses more work you have to do.....
I talked to the cobalt-staff..but there is no other way to do...(best thing:
backup via web-interface and restore it on the new raq...but the backup
files have different headers.....)

If you have a better method to upgrade...mail it to me.....


Greetings

Steven


-----Original Message-----
From:	cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey L. McKune
Sent:	Samstag, 4. Dezember 1999 17:58
To:	cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	[cobalt-users] RaQ1 to RaQ2 upgrade

Folks,

Got my RaQ1 to RaQ2 upgrade CD.  Since it wipes the drive, I need to tar my
sites up before I do this.  Not sure if the FrontPage extensions keep all
the site-related files in the "sites" directory or not (does anyone else?),
but it looks like I can do the following to prep for the upgrade:

1.)  Go to the home/sites directory
2.)  Do a "tar cvzpf mySites.tar *" to archive all the sites.  Copy the tar
ball off to
     another machine.
3.)  Do the upgrade.
4.)  Manually recreate the sites using the RaQ2 browser interface.
5.)  Manually recreate all of the user accounts using the RaQ2 browser
interface (whew! - is
     there a better way???)
6.)  Move the tar ball back to the new "sites" directory, whereever it is in
the new RaQ2
     directory structure.
7.)  Unpack the sites with "tar -xvzpf mySites.tar"
8.)  Install the latest RaQ2 system updates since the CD was burned.

If any of you have done this before, does this process sound reasonable?
Any clever shortcuts to spare the manual user account recreation?

Thanks,

Jeff McKune
McKune Consulting Services
Web services, handhelds, custom systems, video
Office:  (573)364-8487
Efax:    (815)361-5955
Email:   jmckune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web:     http://business.mckune.net/mcs


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