Topic: Can't restore backup from Linux desktop

[abovett]

Hi

Has anyone had any success doing a "restore from desktop" using a Linux workstation? I'm running SME server 5.6, and I've been religiously downloading backups via a browser to my Mandrake box, but when I tried to do a restore, no luck. I've tried every browser I've got (Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, Lynx), but they either (a) crash, (b) do absolutely nothing, or (c) display a page from the server saying that the restore was incomplete. The .tgz file I'm trying to restore is about 4 Gb.

Any help with this would be appreciated, as I'm feeling a bit nervous about my data at the moment!

Regards

Andy

[Anonymous]

Do a search here on backup and backup2ws, this question has been answered many times.
In short your backup file is probably OK and you could manually restore from it using an unrar program.
The problem is due to the file being larger than 2Gb, there is a limit to do with smb, tar and browsers when restoring. In short you cannot restore from that file using the restore from desktop function as it is bigger than 2Gb.
If you wish to backup data that will create a backup file larger than 2Gb, you should look at the backup2ws contrib, and set the program to split the backup file into 2gb size (or less) chunks.
You will also be able to restore using backup2ws.

Regs
Ray

[abovett]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll try your suggestions - sounds like that's the answer to my problem.

Could you (or someone) point me to some of the previous discussions on the forum regarding this issue? I'm not finding much with the search function. I had searched (for "restore") before I posted the first time but found nothing. I've just followed your suggestions and searched for "backup" and "backup2ws" but had very few hits. Maybe the older messages aren't getting searched?

Thanks again

Andy

[raem]

Learn to use the search

Do a search on backup2ws and then you will see about 4 results.
At the very bottom just select (tick) Forums
Then click on the Show all results link.

Go back to early year 2003 and then start reading from there onwards. There are many to choose from.