Re: [cobalt-users] CMU on a RaQ550

["alex" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To do it a complet restore of server you must copy this dirs:

/home

/var/db/



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] CMU on a RaQ550


> Jeff Bilicki wrote:
>
> >  A gent named "Alex" asked this question on Cobalt-Users yesterday, but
I
> > > haven't seen any answers yet, so I'm wondering if anyone is relying on
> > > CMU to back up RaQ550s?
> > > If not, do you have another open-source solution that backs up
> > > everything?
> >
> > Currently I wouldn't recommend it, I added a check so that
> > RaQ550 to RaQ550 would fail.   This was due to problems found in
> > testing.  Unfortunately, there no SQA resources to test CMU (yet
> > again).  I had tried to do as much self testing as possible.
>
> Jeff, if there's anything I can do to help you test it, please let me
> know (offlist if you prefer); I'd like to see this solution working.
>
> In the meantime we do need a solution, even if not automated.
>
> If we backup the RaQ550 by CMU, will we at least get all the files we
> need (though not necessarily the database)?  And if so, will we be able
> to relatively easily restore sites and email manually if/when necessary?
>
> Otherwise I'm thinking we can back up the entire /home directory, but
> I'm afraid that would be even harder to restore.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
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