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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Jens H. Kruuse on July 15, 2002, 11:33:39 PM
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(From the "General Forum" - now the problem appears slightly more serious, please see below the line):
I am using Des Dougan & Darrell May's nice "Backup to disk" feature for my daily backups, and it seems to work just fine. Every night everything gets dumped to a share on a Windows 2000 Workstation and I receive a confirmation mail to my admin account. So far so good.
(See: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/flexbackup-to-disk-howto.htm)
A couple of days ago I wanted to do a backup to disk and accidentally screwed up and selected "Restore from tape instead". (The tragi-comedy involves a scroll mouse and a little boy craving attention! ;-) ) Anyway, it failed miserable as I knew it would and I received a note in my mailbox saying:
"An error occurred while restoring from tape.
No tape loaded at /mnt/backup."
No problem in itself, but now I am unable to use the backup panel. Just above the scrollpanel it says: "Restore in progressWed Jul 10 14:12:23 2002. " and my only possible choices are: "Refresh this display" and "Configure tape backup". Either choice is a dud.
I can see in the backup script, that the variable $restore_state eq 'running' but how do I reset the thing? And looking through the script I can see that there may be other things affected my my ill-advised click... So what do I do?
Finally, is this a bug? (Does the same thing happen if the tape drive is empty?)
Cheers,
Jens
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Today I wanted to use the admin console but when I logged in, I was told that the system was unstable, that I should halt it, and consult the User Guide.
I did all three but I failed to find anything of use in the UG, which didn't really surprice me, as I hadn't spotted it on the first read-through.
When I restarted the server, it came up with the same dire warning but I just decided to ignore it. And it seems to be running fine and has the normal options in the Backup-Panel?
What should I do to make the server forget my unfortunate restore?
Thanks in advance,
Jens
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I'm having the exact same problem. I wanted to test the restore and then decide too aborted. Now all I get is "Restore in progress" and my options are "Refresh display" "Configure tape backup". Any ideas folks.
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I manually installed the Update2 RPM's and checked the server-manager, the backup routine is now back to normal.....
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hello
I have the same problem and i would like to know if you have a solution?
Could we use restore from tape from the manager or must i use console and flexbackup_restore script? What must i indicate to restore files and mysql datas, ldap ?
Thanks.
elenezet