Topic: Server no boot

[Stefano]

Again, you won't solve your problems

[smnirosh]

Ok I am goint to reinstall the system. I have a workstation backup saved. What kind of data and settings will have been restored when i restore from backup?

[Stefano]

All, users, groups, data
All but contribs (but their conf will be restored)

[smnirosh]

ok good to know. what about openvpn?
and which file do i have to copy to usb hard disk to restore data (the backup done by workstation backup)?

[Stefano]

Read the fine documentation, really
Thank you

[smnirosh]

Ok thanks

[smnirosh]

I configured workstation backup on new server. But after few minutes it said error reading. The restore process stopped. 🤔🤔🤔

[Stefano]

anything useful in the logs?

[smnirosh]

Ok i will update. I ran once again the restore. Let’s see

[smnirosh]

I directly selected the latest incremental backup. Do i have to select the full backup instead? 🤔🤔🤔

[smnirosh]

This time “unable to retrieve http://localhost/server-manager. Error reading from socket

[Stefano]

how much data?

[smnirosh]

Little bit. Only primary ibay and in messege log it’s said “canonicalize m_connect_path failed for service (username and path)

[Stefano]

did you use the ip or the hostname to connect to the backup host?

[smnirosh]

I used ip.