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 thrilledwith working around the limitations of the Cobalt GUI)
I used to do a tar/gzip backup solution before moving to the raqbackup.sh script. I never had to restore from tar files, but I knew it would be a little tricky. Especially getting the ownerships, permissions and making sure that the site##'s are correct.
I really like the fact that it is using the CMU. It makes life very easy. You just use it to do your restore and it takes care of all the rest. The latest CMU 2.27 seems to be much more solid than previous versions. The only issues I found were with user aliases...but getting the sites and users up was most important to me. Cleaning up some aliases seemed like a small price to pay.
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