Topic: backup and restore

[harry]

I installed 5.0 over my existing 4.1 e-smith. Made a beautiful backup. But after a clean 5.0 install the restore doesn't work. Anyone any idea?
I also installed 4.1 again and tried to restore an old backup file. With the same result. Did I make a backup for nothing?

[Gav]

How big is the Backup????

[JonB]

Harry,

When you say you can't restore do you mean that you are getting browser timeouts before the restore completes. If this is the case then access the server-manager using http://localIP:980 instead of http://my-server/server-manager.
There is a bug in V5 HTTPD that is causing timeouts

From Mitel after submitting a bug report:

>Thanks for the report - it looks like the proxying between the main web
>server and the admin web server is timing out. We'll have a look for a
>future release.

Jon

[harry]

My backup files = 350 mb. Not very big.

[harry]

Yes, the browsers stands still. But also in the previous version I had the same problem. I could only once restore an old backup.

[Harry]

I did it!!
Maybe another bug:
I tried to restore a backup from a 2000 machine. Didn't work at all.
Next trie from a 98 machine and wonderwell...............................
I've got everything on the right place again.

[Phil]

JonB's suggestion above worked for me. I struggled with this for hours trying to restore after installing SME v5. I tried from a Mac, from WinNT, Netscape, IE, even from the server its self. Then this simple suggestion got it working! Thanks JonB!

Phil.