Topic: Desktop Restore

[Andy Parkinson]

Has anyone come up with the answer to the timeout problem when restoring to 5.1.2 . I have read all of the postings on this and have tried changing the templates and to increase the timeout and changing to //localhost:980 but I still cannot restore my backup. I am using Win2k Prof. I recently put an 80 Gig in my server expecting to be able to restore without any problems but now have had to recreate everything. If there is another way of doing a reliable backup of data and config to a windows machine. Could this be a windows 2000 issue as other people have reported succesfull restores from windows 98 machines

[Daniel Bahl]

I have the same problem!!

Right now i use Norton Ghost!! and create a image every day!

[Andy Parkinson]

Daniel Are you using another OS or is this Just a Win2K issue

[guestHH]

Hi,

Did you try the ip number instead of localhost ?

Regards,
guestHH

[Andy Parkinson]

guestHH wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Did you try the ip number instead of localhost ?
>
> Regards,
> RequestedDeletion

Yes I did and I have tried doing this from an ME machine as well with the same result. The time out occurs at exactly 30 seconds after I start the restore although if I try it using the opera browser it takes about 5 mins before it times out.

[JonB]

Quick question, Is your browser set up to use proxy server. If it is then disable it and try again.

Jon

[Andy Parkinson]

JonB wrote:
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> Quick question, Is your browser set up to use proxy server.
> If it is then disable it and try again.
>
> Jon

Have already tried that thanks Jon

[Daniel Bahl]

SSH:

su admin (Switch user to admin)
Then access the control panel
u can also use "lynx localhost/server-manager"
Then take it dirctly from the own machine!! it rocks and work for me now..

Just upp the tar.gz to the server thourht ftp://

[Andy Parkinson]

Thanks for the suggestion Daniel but i have a backup over the 2 gig limit so it would not work uploading the file to the server although any other suggestions you have would be most welcome

Daniel Bahl wrote:
>
> SSH:
>
> su admin (Switch user to admin)
> Then access the control panel
> u can also use "lynx localhost/server-manager"
> Then take it dirctly from the own machine!! it rocks and work
> for me now..
>
> Just upp the tar.gz to the server thourht ftp://

[Andy Parkinson]

Thanks for the suggestion Daniel but i have a backup over the 2 gig limit so it would not work uploading the file to the server although any other suggestions you have would be most welcome

Daniel Bahl wrote:
>
> SSH:
>
> su admin (Switch user to admin)
> Then access the control panel
> u can also use "lynx localhost/server-manager"
> Then take it dirctly from the own machine!! it rocks and work
> for me now..
>
> Just upp the tar.gz to the server thourht ftp://

[Michael Cassera]

I had the same problem you are having Andy.  What I ended up doing is setting up a new file server and transfering all my "working" files over to it.  That changed my backup from 2.63G to 880M.  I left all the accounts, email, ibays and web content intact so the stucture was still there, just most of the meat was moved out.

With an 880M backup file Internet Explore on a Win2K box restored without a hitch so it obviously has something to do with the file size of esmithg.bak.  

I tried to restore using Netscape, but it tried to put the entire backup file in memory before it uploads it to e-smith.

I know this isn't exactly the solution you were looking for, but it is a way to keep the structure of your server without starting from scratch.

Michael