[Bobs-devel] Re: BOBS / restoring files.

[Rene R. <re...@gr...>]

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:07, Arnaud CONCHON wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use BOBS in my company to backup my network files. It seems to
> work quite well, after some troubles i had making PHP work with db3
> support...
> There's a question i was asking myself... There is a picture attached to
> this e-mail. Please take a look at it. The question is how can i restore the
> folder AQP, or the "root" folder, which means everything which has been
> backed-up. If the server which hosts my files dies, and i want to restore
> all on another server, how can I do?
> Thanx in advance for your answer.
> 
> Best regards.
> 

The fast and easy way to do it is to mount the new server and manually
copy the files.

Assuming that both servers are running linux, here's and example:

mount newserver:/path/to/files /mnt/newserver
cp -a /path/to/the/current/backup/* /mnt/newserver/
umount /mnt/newserver
go to the admin pages and adjust the settings if nessecary.

That is basiclly it.

BOBS was never meant as a failover solution. I made it to allow users to
accces to files they lost in a easy and system independant way. I
assumed that adminstrators would be able to restore a lost server in a
sane manner, as described above.
I guess this should go into the documentation.

Cheers
Rene

I CC'ed this to the bobs-devel list. Please use that in the future,

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