RE: [cobalt-users] restore CD

["GPS" <gps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm about to do a complete restore with OS Restore CD on RaQ3i.
>
>I backed up all system files and user files, using GUI backup and a
>SNAP! server.
>
>The BIG question is:
>Are user passwords backed-up as well? Are they restored when backup is
>restored? If not, can I get this from somewhere and put it back after
>the restore is done?
>
>Another question is:
>Do I have to re-create every single user in every single virtual site?
>
>And let me thank you in advance for your helpful replies. :-)

You will NOT be able to restore the sites and users with .raq backups
made through the GUI without a lot of hassle. 

You need to use the Raq3 CMU Migration Utility available at the Cobalt
Download site. It comes with a well-written PDF manual.

You run it from the command line and it will tar up all the sites and users.
You then transfer the whole directory over to another machine, do your restore,
reinstall the CMU utility, ftp the tar directory back over to target server and
run the CMU utility again with the import function. 

With the latest version of the CMU I had the following problems.

1. For no apparent reason a few siteadmin user accounts wouldn't import back in.
2. Group ownership on ALL the sites was assigned to 'admin'. Had to manually correct
   on all sites.
3. As with previous versions the site number was not retained. ie: site4 becomes site10 etc.
   This breaks most of the site cgi that uses hard-coded paths and must be manually corrected.

Also you don't want to restore system files unless you're positive that they were not comprimised...
defeats the purpose of doing a restore.


Tony