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General => Users => Topic started by: mythtified on November 25, 2010, 03:31:30 pm
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Is there a trick to getting backups restore to work properly? I can make backups. I can see them created in web admin. I can download them to another machine and extract the contents to see that the file is not empty, but the restore does not work. In fact, I have never seen this work. Is there a work around to restore the backup manually after the backup file is uploaded back to the machine? Yes I do reboot the machine after the backup is uploaded and I have clicked restore. The wiki says that the reboot will take longer than normal because the backup is being restored but the reboot always seems the same to me.
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Lots of views but no answers. Is there a way to run restore from the command line? Or should I do a backup and restore directly from mysql?
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I dont think it has ever worked, and it has not been a priority yet.
the source is all there, and we would really appreciate it if someone could look into it.
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I cannot fix the script but there are other ways of making a mysql backup. One is by using mysqldump and then restoring that after the fact. I just did that successfully from one machine to another. OF course that does not copy the config files. The other way would be by making a database backup with mysqlhotcopy. I am curious if mysqlhotcopy was used to create the backup of the database through the administrative web site. If that is how it is done then it could be a matter of unpacking resulting compressed tar file and copying the unpacked files in their proper places. Can someone confirm this for me?
Well after further reading I see that mysqlhotcopy would not work since it works with isam and myisam tables only.