Topic: Any robust backup solution for sme??

[yiibong]

Hey,

I have studied to the sme backup and restore panel, as advised by the panel intruction, the restoration is "ideally to be performed on a freshly installed server."

my question is, if i want to restore partial files from backup set or only mysql database file for the existing server, can we do so?

what will be robust backup solution for the server?

Thanks.

[wsmeurope]

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[fpausp]

Hi,

Is this working on sme7 ?

[crazybob]

Do not forget that SME 7 is still in beta, and many things are under development for it. To find out if it will work with SME 7, you may want to set up a test box and try it. Then open a bug report at sourceforge.

[wsmeurope]

I just try this on my SME 7b :

wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/rar-3.3.0-1.1.el3.dag.i586.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-backup2ws-0.0.1-24dmay.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uhv compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uhv rar-3.3.0-1.1.el3.dag.i586.rpm
rpm -Uhv smeserver-backup2ws-0.0.1-24dmay.noarch.rpm

It's looks working fine.

[yiibong]

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Does it workable for sme7? correct me if i am wrong, the sme7 is using the different manner by doing so the backup, is it a good for sme7?

Thanks.

[wsmeurope]

Yes it is, I just install the contib on a 7b5. Have to test now ...

[CharlieBrady]

I have studied to the sme backup and restore panel, as advised by the panel intruction, the restoration is "ideally to be performed on a freshly installed server."

It really should say "must be performed on a freshly installed server". It's a full disaster recovery option, nothing more, nothing less.

If you have tape backup, there is a howto I think on selective file/directory restore.

[gordonr]

It really should say "must be performed on a freshly installed server". It's a full disaster recovery option, nothing more, nothing less.

If you have tape backup, there is a howto I think on selective file/directory restore.

Also note that a desktop backup file is purely a gzipped tarball. You can extract files from that backup using tar, WinZip, and lots of other tools.

Desktop/HTTP backup is limited to at most 4GBytes (frequently 2GBytes) due to limitations in various places in various operating systems.