Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:11:20 -0600 From: Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> [snip] > My remarks weren't meant as a criticism of your tool at all. Simply as a > document to help others who are trying the same thing we did. I did not think that they were, I am glad you posted them here. This is the only forum where I get feedback on the CMU tool. Jeff-
Ah, well, since you're looking for feedback, let me tell you about something odd/bad I had happen with the CMU tool.
I was importing a largish site from my RaQ4 over to my RaQ550. I had done an entire backup of the machine using RaQBackup (which I've successfully used to do a restore previously). I popped it onto the RaQ550 told it to do the import, using cmuImport -d /home/backups -n www.sitename.com -i new.ip.num.here.
It successfully created all the users for the site and then starting putting into place the "public" files for the site. At that point it complained that there was a MD5 checksum error between somewhere (the cmu.xml file maybe?) and the archive. Then, insted of just aborting, it proceeded to spew the contents of the archive (mostly Perl scripts) onto the command line, which ended up creating crap all over my file system. I had directories and filenames with junky filenames everywhere. I ended up having to do an OS Restore to clean it up.
I'd like therefore to suggest that, in the future, if there's a checksum mismatch, that it just stop!
Thanks! MichellePS: I love this tool. I'm so pleased that you're going to do some more work so I can continue to use RaQBackup on my 550. With the recent "addition" to your family, if you're allowed to solicit donations via PayPal or what-have-you, I'd be delighted to make a contribution for your work.