Topic: Lost contacts after a tape restore

[SeaWolf]

I'm using the older SME 5.0 adn we had a bit of a problem with our server. I did a fresh install and restored from tape, but after the restore everyone has lost their personal address book in IMP. I have no idea what's happened or even where to look for where IMP stores the contact, I assume it's in MySQL somwhere. Anybody had this problem before, or got any ideas?

[Ray Mitchell]

Your problem might be that you have backed up everything but youu have not actually restored everything. You need to manually restore some files.

See http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=15411.msg59203#msg59203

The backup to tape will backup all filesystems, however only the files and directories in this list will be restored.

/home/e-smith
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom
/etc/e-smith/templates-user-custom
/etc/ssh
/root/.ssh
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
/etc/smbpasswd

I do not know where the IMP address books are stored though, anyone else know ?

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Ray Mitchell]

Here's a clue

http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=21310&t=21304

Regards
Ray Mitchell