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Re: [cobalt-users] backup



I would love to know how you get this to work. I have contacted various people at Sun Cobalt and they all tell me the same thing:

'The backup and restore does not work properly. It did not work on the Raq2 or the 3 or even the 4. They did, however, get it to work on the Cube 3, so it is possible. Every time I ask about this I get told that they are working on it and it will be fixed soon. This has been said for nearly a year.

If they can not get it to work, they should bring out a patch which removes the buttons. I have clients who, despite being told, still rely on it and then come crying to me when they can't restore files correctly.

Bits of it I am sure do work but it is not worth relying on.

One fantastic tool Cobalt came out with was the Staqware. this was software to mirror a Raq 3 or 4 in real time and an automatic fail over if the master machine failed. However, in Sun's wisdom they dropped the product. Why?????

It does require 2 identical servers but it does work. How about making it public domain?

Jason Vaughan
http://www.cobalt-training.com
Next training day, 27th November 2001.


Yes, and it works beautifully :)
-- Jonathan

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Gerald Waugh wrote:

 > You can use the RaQ's backup option in the GUI, which will back EVERYTHING
 > up and download it to you as a .raq file which you can then put on
 > write-once media and store. -- Jonathan
 >
 Have you ever tested a restore, from that kind of a backup???


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