Re: [IPCop-devel] question about backup / restore config

[David W S. <avi...@ai...>]

Guenter wrote:

> Hi,
> I really would like to get clearly explained how backup/restore is
> supposed to work.
> I can make a backup, and download it, fine.
> I can upload a previously downloaded backup, and restore this backup on
> the same machine, also fine.
> I can export the backup key, fine; however what I miss is a way via GUI
> how I can afterwards import this backup key into a fresh installation.

Via installer gui?
 
> To save me further mess all the time I save /var/ipcop/backup/backup.key
> with scp, and restore this key on a fresh installation with scp before I
> try to restore the backup, and that works fine; however I would like to
> know if this is really the only way to restore a previously saved config
> from another machine, or if I'm missing something? Why dont we have a
> backup key import feature yet?
> 
> Gün.
> 
If you restore from a usb stick the only thing you need to have on it is the 
key and the dat file, here's where you may be going wrong if in fact you 
mean installer gui restore. You have to remove the time date stamp from your 
dat file name. Then usb restore works fine. The key itself does not need to 
be renamed. It will only look for the hostname dat file without the time 
date stamp as part of the file name.

-- 
Dave
http://www.raqcop.com