Topic: Restore to another server?

[Enrico Sørensen]

Hello Everybody,
I've tried to do a restore of 4.1.1 to another computer (including a fresh install) from a backup file made of the master server (in the manager of a workstation). The restore works "fine", but when I reboot and acces the new server I can't se any users in the manager - allthough they are there when I look on the server from the commandline?
Is it supposed to be that way? Or is it just not possible to make a backup to a different maschine? - Everything but this works great!!!
                                                                                 Enrico Sørensen.

[Paul Miller]

Hi,

I have the same problem! I want to upgrade to 4.1.1 but am afraid of damaging my 4.0.1 system. So I am trying to move version 4.0.1 to a newer machine with a fresh install of 4.1.1.  I am using a Mac to do the backup.

Enrico Sørensen wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
> I've tried to do a restore of 4.1.1 to another computer
> (including a fresh install) from a backup file made of the
> master server (in the manager of a workstation).

I was able to restore to 4.1.1 once but was unable to see users in the manager.  I have made several unsuccessfull attempts since.

> The restore
> works "fine", but when I reboot and acces the new server I
> can't se any users in the manager - allthough they are there
> when I look on the server from the commandline?
> Is it supposed to be that way? Or is it just not possible to
> make a backup to a different maschine?

In addition, it seems my backup results from 4.0.1 are not consistent with what I have seen in past backups.  What I have seen before is a backup report.  I no longer get that.

Restore from Netscape completes without notification. File size info is similar to e-smith-manager estimate.  

Restore from MSIE gets halfway through the progress bar, then quits with a warning about the file.

I haven't tried backing up from a Windows client yet.  Are there any Mac users out there who have successfully restored and/or upgraded to 4.1.1?

The difference between my system now and the previous successful backup attempts is I have added stephen noble's rpm to show PPP status, some other rpms from rpmfind and a perl script called TWiki on top the basic e-smith install. I am wondering if some of these 'extras' could cause the problem.

If so, is rpm -e sufficient to 'clean up' my system?

If so, what precautions should I take when adding rpm's not a part of e-smith distribution?

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated.

Best Regards
Paul Miller

[Richard Bruce]

If it's of any use I've restored all users and mail etc successfully several times using "backup to desktop" on a Mac. *HOWEVER* these were all backups created from a 4.1.1 installation (I'm a relatively new "convert" to e-smith). The only "upgrade" I've ever done was an "in place" upgrade from 4.1 to 4.1.1 (as I thought my problems were being caused by the then new 4.1.1 image. They weren't!) Hope this might be of use to you.

Richard