RE: [cobalt-users] Backup again!

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

The best solution currently for backup is to use the CMU and then tar up the
resulting directory and ftp it somewhere else. Your method will backup data
but not all the database entries, passwords etc required.

Please don't shoot the messenger I know the backup doesn't work as do a lot
of people internally who either use RaQs or deal with customers its as
frustrating for us as you.  I wish it would either be fixed or a patch to
remove it and let a third party come out with a backup solution that works.

Gavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jarle Søiland
> Sent: 31 July 2001 15:05
> To: Cobalt-Users@List. Cobalt. Com
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Backup again!
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarle Søiland [mailto:cobaltmail@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Backup again!
>
>
> The backup modules in the GUI on the raq servers are not an good solution
>  it works nice to backup, but I have never been able to restore again from
> that backup sets sucesfully)
>
> My question is, will not the following command take a complete backup that
> can be restored if the server crash?
>
> tar -czvf /home/sites/home/users/admin/complete.tar.gz ./
>
> I have now been restoring a Raq4 server and had to manualy add all sites
> before I used a stripheader script on the backupset from the GUI
> to get back
> the sites data ( I had 190 sites on the server) It took me 5 days to get
> ewryting up running as normal again. If I have had that complete
> backupfile
> from
>
> tar -czvf /home/sites/home/users/admin/complete.tar.gz ./
>
> Could I then had been restoring that to the server with:
>
> tar -xzvf /home/sites/home/users/admin/complete.tar.gz  from root and
> rebooted the server and ewryting had benn as before this backup?
>
> I have now done 3 restores with Raq servers ( 2 Raq2 and one Raq4
> and it is
> hell ) I hope I newer have to do this again and need an solution
> for a good
> backup.
>
> Jarle Soiland
> Mega 2000 AS
> www.mega2000.no
>
>
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