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

["David Conorozzo" <davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am starting to feel the same way about the RaQ.  I feel as if NT would have been much easier to recover from a hack on, I have so many NT machines.  It seems that any time I try to do something out of the ordinary on the RaQ I run into trouble (like something as simple as being able to FTP into all of the sites as admin, need a different FTP server).  Or once when I applied a .pkg I lost my stats for a few days.  Or when I changed IP addresses I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to get Apache to allow me to change only a few sites at a time (this is simple on IIS and with 2000 I can just add IP's to the system without rebooting.  And even on 1 NIC I can add IP's that are not even on the same subnet).  And backup is simple and reliable and not very costly.  Arkeia and Legato range from $3000 - $6000 for our needs.

David Conorozzo
PC Assistance, Inc.


>>> Chris Dorman <cdorman@xxxxxxxxx> 02/09/01 01:51PM >>>
   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:
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>
>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.

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