I didn't have the time to troubleshoot the restore. The server was in full production, so I went with someone else's solution on restoring everything individually.
What I did was install the new SME 8 server, and set it up exactly the same as the failed server (all users, configurations, ibays, no contribs)
Then, from my AFFA box, I export RDIR=/home/e-smith/files/users/"username"/ # this variable is used to shorten the next command line
rsync -av /var/affa/backups/mtrose/daily.0/$RDIR 10.204.48.1:$RDIRfor each user and ibay.
The last thing I had to do, was remove all the client machines from the domain, and add them again.
Nothing was lost, but time, however, the main ibay was up and running in 30 minutes, which is the center of production. The rest of the files were frivolous, so I had time to restore them.
Just a note though after the first restore attempt:
all the file permissions were numbers, and not user names or group names. This was odd.
Also, you asked for this so here it is
# EDIT THIS:
my %job=(
'remoteHostName'=>'10.1.12.1', # FQHN or IP address
'TimeSchedule'=>'1100', # HHMM,HHMM,...
'Description'=>'MtRose Server', # text string.
'scheduledKeep'=>1, # integer >= 1
'dailyKeep'=>7, # integer >= 0
'weeklyKeep'=>4,# integer >= 0
'monthlyKeep'=>12,# integer >= 0
'yearlyKeep'=>2,# integer >= 0
'SMEServer'=>'yes', # yes | no
'Include[0]'=>'', # additional files or directories to include
#'Include[1]'=>'/rosemedia',
#'Include[2]'=>'',
'Exclude[0]'=>'', # files or directories to exclude from backup
#'Exclude[1]'=>'',
#'Exclude[2]'=>'',
'RPMCheck'=>'yes', # yes | no
'DiskSpaceWarn'=>'strict', # strict | normal | risky | none
'localNice'=>0, # -19...+19
'remoteNice'=>0, # -19...+19
'Watchdog'=>'yes', # yes | no
'sshPort'=>22, # default ssh port is 22
'ConnectionCheckTimeout'=>300, # seconds
'rsyncTimeout'=>1100, # seconds
'rsyncCompress'=>'yes', # yes | no
'EmailAddresses'=>'admin@mtrosemedia.tk', # name@domain.com,name@domain.com,...
'chattyOnSuccess'=>14, # send N success notifications
'RetryAfter'=>600, # retry after 10 minutes
'RetryAttempts'=>3,# number of retries
'RetryNotification'=>'yes', # notify when retrying
'postJobCommand'=>'', # full path to local program/script
'preJobCommand'=>'', # full path to local program/script
'AutomountDevice'=>'', # Device to auto mount (e.g. USB drive)
'AutomountPoint'=>'', # the mountpoint for AutomountDevice
'AutomountOptions'=>'', # Optionstring passed to mount command e.g. '-t cifs'
'AutoUnmount'=>'yes', # umount if fs was not mounted before Affa ran
'RootDir'=>'/var/affa/backups', # where to save the archives. Don't use /root or /home/e-smith
'SambaShare'=>'yes', # enable Samba access to the archives
'Debug'=>'yes', # yes | no
'status'=>'enabled', # enabled | disabled
'rsync--inplace'=>'no', # yes | no : rsync on source supports '--inplace' option
'rsync--modify-window'=>0, # integer >= 0, timestamp window
);
Something else that was strange, the rpm-missing.txt was empty. I know there are differences because the AFFA box only has AFFA and SME7admin.
I am guessing the AFFA box needs to be 8 as well to properly backup the SME 8 box. I don't know, and I know I did a lot of testing with the previous SME8 Beta7 install, so I was going to do a new SME 8 install on the AFFA box, so I wouldn't have this issue agaiun.
I also kept the hard drive operational from the previous install of SME 8, so if there is something that you would like to see on the previous install, I can load it into a test box and get it back up.
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