[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

RE: [cobalt-users] Is it possible to restore using the gui?

I guess I should have tested it, However I don't see why I should have to buy a new raq server, and try and restore the 147 sites onto it to test the ability of the backup system to work. That would be like buying a new car and running it into a wall to test the airbag. If the backup is not able to fully restore the server, why include the option at all? By including a non-functional backup and restore function, owners of these servers are lead to belive that the server is safely backed up. If the restore function is not able to restore more then a few sites at a time, how about having the ability to backup the server, site by site? People buy these servers and are led to believe that they can load 150-200 sites per server when in reality they are capable of far less. Its not possible for someone to go and backup 900+ websites on our servers, site by site manually.
We currently have 8 Raq3 servers. We are now planning to move the sites off all the raq servers and back onto our NT servers. The raq servers have been nothing but trouble, taking about 4 times as many man hours per site to support then the NT servers. 



At 10:15 AM 2/9/01 , you wrote:

--__--__--

Message: 2
From: "Dom Latter" <d.latter@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <cdorman@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Is it possible to restore using the gui?
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:12:12 -0000
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>   What the heck is going on? Why include a restore util if it
> doesn't? If we knew that it couldn't restore the websites, we
> would have found something that would.

Oh well.  Perhaps somebody else on this list might learn from
your mistake.  You should *always* and *regularly* test that
you can restore from your backups.  Otherwise you may as well
not be backing-up in the first place.

>   Any help would be appreciated.  Please post directly to me
> if you have any suggestions. cdorman@xxxxxxxxx

It's impolite to request private replies to a public question
without good reason.