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

["Craig Napier" <craignapier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Any directory that is not present (all the websites for example) don't get 
> created and the files are not restored. Any help would be appreciated.  
> Please post directly to me if you have any >suggestions.

That's actually the way it's setup to work.. Unless you peaked around the 
"Restore" area, you prob didn't see the little warning message:

NOTE: Please be careful not to interrupt an archive restore as data could be 
corrupted. In addition, you can only restore data for existing users and 
sites. Do not selectively restore sites or users that have been deleted.

You have to re-enter all the domain's in the GUI <by hand> and I *think* 
even the user's.. Then you can use that little <good for nothing> .raq file 
to restore the user's web directory contents and mail spools... You also 
have to renter everything into the DNS GUI, if it's a clean OS restore or 
new machine....

I feel for you... I had this exact same experience last March... I decided 
to move all my customers from my old beige boxes to these new blue RaQ3's 
<at the time>. Two weeks after migrating 200 domains and several hundred 
user accounts? my NOC lost power to their facility <dN (Verio) no less>.  To 
boot, their backup generators failed and everything went black.... When they 
got power restored 7 hours later - when the power shot across my box, it 
fried the hard drive... <so much for that advertised back diesel generators 
and conditioned power>? Then and only then <it was only my second week on a 
Cobalt> I discovered that those 200 customers/domains wasn't really 
backed-up after all? Three days later, I was STILL restoring domains and 
users by hand... Not to mention the customers and $$ I lost because of the 
whole situation...

The best thing I've seen going is just to use the CMU tool to backup each of 
your users or machine... That's about the best thing next to a backup that 
will restore without many headaches <which it had been around last March>...

Good Luck!
Craig Napier
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