Topic: Option to only backup accounts

[Ray Mitchell]

Cyrus
I was almost going to scream at you when I saw your last post re share names, lucky you spotted it first.

I have not tried the restore part yet, but when I look at the restore option it allows you to select the particular backup file with a certain date.
So I guess that after reinstalling sme and backup2ws, you would then create the disaster recovery backup job, note that it always gives the ID # 911 (ha, ha), so the ID on the old and new system backup file would be the same.

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear All
I also tried split backups of exactly 2,000,000 (which is just under the 2Gb problem size) and it works fine. I created a backup file with 2 parts of 2Gb and a 1Gb part, so this is a workaround for the 2Gb "limit".

One problem I noted was that if I do a complete backup ie all folders except /, /tmp. /proc, then the backup2ws appears to create many 2Gb chunks way past the size that is on the sme server, it appears to be backing up the mounted windows share drive. So it's not a good idea to backup the whole file system.

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Rick Evans]

Forgive me if this is wrong. But I was under the impression that a creating a simple re-installation disk from server-manager would backup the user accounts.

Is that accurate?

-Rick

[Ray Mitchell]

Rick
No, the reinstal disk only saves the server configuration details ie domain , IP etc.
To get the user accounts, ibays and so on, you have to do a backup to tape or desktop or similar (backup2ws).

See the many other posts about backup in these forums, search for backup

Regards
Ray Mitchell