[cobalt-users] RE: Full Restores... they are kidding, right?

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Roy A. Urick stated...

I am beginning to find Cobalt/SUN's failure to mention things like this (and
treating them as normal as the sun shining at noon) quite humorous in that
sick, mentally deranged "I give up" nervous breakdown kinda way....

SO... on a positive note,  anyone know of any reasonably priced backup (and
restore)  solutions that actually DO work...
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I read about the instability and hassles of restoring backups and it is
getting me a little bit concerned now :<
We have several servers [RaQ3's] all totally remote to us in collocation
centres - if the situation was possible I would have them next door but I'm
afraid we can't.

We do full daily backups via the GUI which FTP's to another server (in the
collocation centre) via a daily cron routine - system files, customers files
and emails and heaven forbid when the time comes to restore a site or the
whole lot I would expect this to be a straight forward restore - but going
by previous posts it's not and seems to be a nightmare.

I too would be interested in a "proven" method of restoring specific files
from the back-up set or even restoring the whole customer base after a box
has been restored and patched up again.

Look forward to any words of wisdom or advise

Regards from Auckland

Chae