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Title: backup and restore
Post by: harry on November 15, 2001, 03:16:59 PM

I installed 5.0 over my existing 4.1 e-smith. Made a beautiful backup. But after a clean 5.0 install the restore doesn't work. Anyone any idea?
I also installed 4.1 again and tried to restore an old backup file. With the same result. Did I make a backup for nothing?

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: Gav on November 15, 2001, 06:13:49 PM

How big is the Backup????

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: JonB on November 16, 2001, 12:23:18 AM

Harry,

When you say you can't restore do you mean that you are getting browser timeouts before the restore completes. If this is the case then access the server-manager using http://localIP:980 instead of http://my-server/server-manager.
There is a bug in V5 HTTPD that is causing timeouts

From Mitel after submitting a bug report:

>Thanks for the report - it looks like the proxying between the main web
>server and the admin web server is timing out. We'll have a look for a
>future release.

Jon

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: harry on November 16, 2001, 11:05:50 AM

My backup files = 350 mb. Not very big.

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: harry on November 16, 2001, 11:16:21 AM

Yes, the browsers stands still. But also in the previous version I had the same problem. I could only once restore an old backup.

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: Harry on November 20, 2001, 01:51:21 AM

I did it!!
Maybe another bug:
I tried to restore a backup from a 2000 machine. Didn't work at all.
Next trie from a 98 machine and wonderwell...............................
I've got everything on the right place again.

Title: Re: backup and restore
Post by: Phil on December 17, 2001, 04:19:31 AM

JonB's suggestion above worked for me. I struggled with this for hours trying to restore after installing SME v5. I tried from a Mac, from WinNT, Netscape, IE, even from the server its self. Then this simple suggestion got it working! Thanks JonB!

Phil.