Topic: BACKUP AND RESTORE

[mario43]

Hi, peoples

I'm investigating for more than 6 monts on e-smith 4.xx and SME 5.x on the subject of backup and restore. But doing a tape backup and after doing a restore, the mail stop to do the retrival on the exsternal ISP, (multidrop option on the e-smith manager).
Also users are not recovered from backup, when a fresh install has been made after the tape backup.
The backup to desktop presents the same problems.
Last tape backup and restore I've done, with a new HP Surestore DAT8 and the proper procedure of SME v.5, produced a stop in the downloading function of fetchmail.
To obtain a true backup I actually utilize multiple (3) HD and I do a copy af the "working disk" by means of PowerQuest PQDI or by Paragon.
To copy the HD the e-smith server must be off-line and the operation needs (depending on disk data size) from 5 to 30 minuts.
The copy is done each day and I maintain 2 different copies on 2 HD.
May be the and the copy. The disks are inserted in drawers to obtain an easy swapping. Handling of a drawer is quite delicate and HD's must handled with certains cautions.
After this long introduction I arrive to the point: what features are provided in aXon 1.0 (and for the future), in order to have a true working mechanism of BACKUP and RESTORE.
A true server is useless without serious methods of installation saving and, also, of data save and recovery.
Has anyone deeply investigated the subject?

[Chris O'Donovan]

For e-smith and SME you need to use the "reinstallation disk" that is created through the e-smith-manager.

You boot from this floppy disk with the install CD in the CD drive on a fresh machine. This installs e-smith or SME with all of the configuration information from the machine in which the floppy was created. *Then* you do a restore of the data from your tape.

Chris

[Gordon Rowell]

We frequently use and test both network and tape backup and restore.

When combined with the reinstallation floppy mentioned in the other followup, both methods fully restore a server to its pre-backup configuration, including all users and settings.

Neither will restore non-standard customisations, but both will restore all configuration and data from server customised as described under www.e-smith.org/custom.

If you have a problem with the backup and restore, please
contact one of our authorized partners for support.

If you believe you have found a bug, please provide a detailed
bug report to bugs@e-smith.com Please note that we do not provide technical support through the bugs@e-smith.com alias, but detailed bug reports may help fix problems in a later release.

Gordon