Re: [cobalt-users] restore CD

["Joshua Kim" <developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tony. The problems you encountered, I can deal with.
But the question remains: how do I preserve user passwords?


> 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