RE: [cobalt-users] Did anyone ever successfully restore a Raq4r?

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <gavin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Being a bit paranoid I have been attempting to do a disaster recovery of a
> Raq4 before putting it into production.  I have backed up using both the
> built-in tools both by web and FTP, uploaded the .raq files via FTP to a
> fresh machine loaded from the recovery CD.  The restore only
> works for maybe
> half the files and "unknown error" is shown for the rest.  Next I took the
> hack approach and stripped the headers off of the .raq file and
> restored the
> tar archive using the same parameters used by the Cobalt CGI,
> that got back
> all the missing files but now "Site Management" in the GUI is
> broken.  Seems
> the site management Perl script is having trouble accessing the Postgres
> config database (exec failures on sql commands), the database is running
> though.  (Maybe the backup script didn't capture everything needed for
> recovery???)

well a bit of a confession here the backup and restore process does not work
in a disaster recovery scenario ( don't flame me i'm only an SE )

> Is a clean disaster recovery possible with the Cobalt
> backup/restore scheme,
> is there a trick or something that I am missing?

I think the best scenario I have seen so far is to use the CMU (Cobalt
Migration Utility) run it as a cron job nightly and then ftp the resulting
file to somewhere else.  If you have to rebuild your RaQ then you can do a
CMU import to restore the sites,data, users etc.

Hope this helps

Gavin

Gavin Nelmes-Crocker
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