[cobalt-users] TAR disaster restore

["lart02" <lart02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello
After watching this list for months and researching others suggestions in the archives, 
I tried my first attempt to test a "disaster recovery" type backup and restore to a RAQ4.
   (I cannot use Legato or Arkeia etc. and was unable get either the raqbackup.sh or the 
"scheduled file backup-FTP server to work.)
So I am trying the suggested TAR and FTP method.
It almost worked. Can someone please tell me what I've missed?
I began with two identical RAQ4's. The source machine has 2 web sites on it. 
Target machine status was factory shipped  +  initial setup wizard, host name etc.   
On the source machine, su  - root,  cd  /   
tar cpvfX /home/mydata.tar   /home/myexclude.list  /home
tar cpvfX /home/myconf.tar /home/myexclude.list /root /usr /etc /var
     ( exclude list excludes these tar files)
I FTP files to the target machine, to a temporary directory in /home
On the target machine:   su - root ,  cd  /
tar xpvf  /home/my_stuff/myconf.tar      
tar xpvf  /home/my_stuff/mydata.tar    
The verbose output of these commands seemed to say everything went OK.