Topic: New HDD; backup/Restore

[igor]

Hi All;
I'm French (sorry  
but nobody answer to my question in the French forum; so I put it here.

I need to change my 2 HDD (raid1 software) because they are too small now.

I think to install a new sme-server on the 2 new hdd and restore the backup.

I just need a confirmation about that :

Is that realy ALL that I need to to...
- Backing-up the actual server thru web interface on a 'remote' desktop.
- Installing new HDD.
- Installing SME server on them.
- Restoring from web interface.

This seems for me too easy to do !!!!!!!!

Like this procedure; I don't need to do anything else for restoring, server parameters/users and groups data and parameters....

All my server will be completely functionnal after this so easy manipulation ??????

Help please.

Regards.

Igor

[mikie]

you got it that simple that easy.  backup to desktop, verify backup, install new hard drives, install SME, install any contribs you had, restore your backup, reboot, Bob your uncle your done in no time.

mike

[igor]

Wouahouuuu.......(<--- in French  lol)

Wonderfull.........

BUT....

Please : How to reinstall "contribs"

Thanks.

[azche24]

Hi,

you got it that simple that easy.  backup to desktop, verify backup, .. Bob your uncle your done in no time.
mike

not a good idea: If his old HD are to small he will not even be able to backup (and restore!) to desktop for this ugly 2 GB limit.

[igor]

My old HD were 20Gb.
News are 40Gb.
Do you think there is a problem ???

Backup is on a remote XP/ntfs station (thru web interface); so no size problem !

Can you tell me more about the 2Gb limit problem ????

Thanks.

[azche24]

Hi, igor,

the backuptodesktop webpanel in SME is not able to restore files with more than 2 GB. It backs up. Restore impossible (in my case 2.7 gb backup with mozilla did NOT restore from winxp NTFS partition).

This has been reported many times here. Do a search. You can use the wonderful backup2ws contrib by darrel may. But that needs some customization what to back up.

[igor]

You said :
"Not able to restore file from 2gb...."

But..  2gb each ?  or the total backup must not exceed 2gb ?????

[crazybob]

total backup must not be larger than 2GB

[igor]

Does the :

dmc-mitel-backup2ws-0.0.1-16.noarch.rpm

resolve this problem ?????

[p-jones]

Does this "so simple" solution also take care of rebuilding the raid ?

[azche24]

Hi,

Does the :

dmc-mitel-backup2ws-0.0.1-16.noarch.rpm

resolve this problem ?????

Yes. But it is a little tricky, what to back up and restore - as stated before. This one is perfect for "normal" backups. I use it to back the whole /home and some files in /var .