[cobalt-users] RE: Using raqbackup.sh

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:27 PM -0500 1/15/02, WEBB cite is rumored to have typed:

> >I use raqbackup.sh for backing up my RaQ4i server but -fortunately- I
> >haven't tried to restore data, yet.
<snip>
> I run it nightly and have had to restore two seperate systems.

   Actually, this brings up a question I've had for awhile and never got
around to asking. I'm using cron with a shell script to call tar/gzip to back
up various directories (including site directories, /etc, /var, etc.) to a
directory for later transfer (the target machine is not usually connected to
the Net for various safety reasons, instead the files are manually transfered
once/week), so I'm not interested in using raqbackup.sh directly. But am I
biting myself in the butt and making my life _really_ difficult should I ever
need to restore if I don't use the Migration Utility to create the backups?

   That is, does the CMU actually make life any easier than restoring from
straight tar files, especially considering I'll _still_ need to script the
backup of specific changes made outside the GUI (/etc/mail, for example)?

         Charlie (who, remember, is comfortable in linux, and not so thrilled
                   with working around the limitations of the Cobalt GUI)