[Astlinux-devel] Tarsnap restore

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Hi Devs

Im thinking that we should mention in the Tarsnap Online Backup doco about what needs to be done if you are restoring to a new box .
I think the process is as follows:


  1.  Build new Astlinux server
  2.  Copy stored tarsnap.key to /mnt/kd/tarsnap
  3.  tarsnap -xvf <archive> -C /mnt/kd to restore all files
  4.  tarsnap –fsck to resync cache so you can backup again. If you don't you get:
tarsnap: Sequence number mismatch: Run --fsck
tarsnap: Error creating new archive
tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

It may be worth also mentioning the process for restoring the database.dump file:
e.g.
echo; echo "Restoring database..."
echo "Shutting down Asterisk"
service asterisk stop >/dev/null
sleep 2
sqlite3 /mnt/kd/astdb.sqlite3 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS astdb;' >/dev/null
sqlite3 /mnt/kd/astdb.sqlite3 < /mnt/kd/database.dump >/dev/null
echo "Starting Asterisk"
service asterisk start >/dev/null
sleep 2

PS I am not a scripting expert so I probably have done some things the long way.

What do you think?

Regards
Michael Knill