Topic: Restore and the updates are gone

[Ronald]

Hi everybody,
I've made a Backup to desktop and create a Reinstallation disk.

My Produktivbox is a sme 5.5 with update1+2, imp3.1, horde,kronoltih etc.

After Restore the the backupfile to a new disk all updates where gone.
No imp3.1, no kronolith nothing.

What's going wrong? The userdata where all right, no problem.

Please help, it is not so fine to burn a ghostimage everytime.

Ron

[Ray Mitchell]

If you are restoring to a disk with a clean instal of sme, then you will need to instal any extra rpms you had previously installed. The data for the programs should be restored though.
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Ronald]

Thanks Ray,
it seems to have a lot of work for restoring.

I have here a ghost-image with all updates, configuration-files and extra software.
No user data are available. It' only the modified system.
What's happen after restore the ghost-image and then restore the normal "backup to desktop" file.
Are the Updates still active or gone?

Ron

[NickR]

The updates will be there.  This is actually a pretty efficient way of doing things.

[Charlie Brady]

Ray Mitchell wrote:

> If you are restoring to a disk with a clean instal of sme,
> then you will need to instal any extra rpms you had
> previously installed. The data for the programs should be
> restored though.

Our standard advice is for people to store any add-on software packages in an i-bay, and then re-apply them to the new system after the restore. Check each add-on for compatibility with the new SME version first.

Regards

Charlie