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September 18, 2009 at 2:39 pm #41924
nedhead
MemberI’m trying to restore a profile to a new cf card.
The old cf was using beta11, the new cf card is using beta12.
I am *always* getting a restore error.
This is on a Soekris 5501.
Any suggestions ?September 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm #48765ppalias
MemberI have transfered a profile from beta11 to beta12 on a pc without a problem. Could you describe the procedure you follow step by step?
September 18, 2009 at 4:02 pm #48766nedhead
MemberOn the beta11 box, selected the profile, then did a ‘backup’.
The backup copied to the pc connected via the web admin interface.
Connected the pc to the beta12 box via the web admin interface.
On the beta12 box, selected the hda, then tried to do a ‘restore’.
Failed.I looked at the backup file and see that it is a uuencoded file. I can uudecode the file, but what kind of binary file do I end up with ?
Is this file a tar or gzip of the DB directory structure ??September 21, 2009 at 10:11 am #48767ppalias
MemberHave you turned off the proxy?
What is the error that you get?
Do NOT use any download accelerators to get the backup. Use the default download of your browser. Also try to do it with another browser.I think the file is a tar of the configuration and the logs.
September 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm #48768nedhead
MemberI am not using a proxy.
I tried both IE and Firefox without any download accelerators.
The file is properly uuencoded – and I can uudecode the file which indicates that the downloaded file is fine.
The problem occurs when trying to restore the configuration.
I am always getting an error. I’ll have to write down the exact error message.September 22, 2009 at 1:09 am #48769ppalias
MemberNo need to uuencode the backup file. You just download it from the old installation and restore it to the new one.
September 22, 2009 at 1:53 am #48770nedhead
MemberThe ‘restore’ does not work!
September 22, 2009 at 10:55 am #48771ppalias
MemberWhat do you mean “doesn’t work”? You click it and nothing happens?
Under the profiles menu click the bullet ont he partition you want to restore the profile and then a pop up window appears to select the backup data to restore.September 22, 2009 at 6:27 pm #48772butteryak
MemberI had the same problem going from 11 to 12. I’d like to tell you I figured it out and it worked, but for some reason I kept getting the error.
I had to reconfigure.
think of it as practice…..
😀September 25, 2009 at 2:04 pm #48773nedhead
MemberI also ended up reconfiguring. I was just hoping the restore would work.
I’m still curious what is used to create the binary file that is uuencoded.
tar ?, gzip ?September 25, 2009 at 4:39 pm #48774ppalias
MemberTar for sure, not sure if it is compressed with gzip however.
August 10, 2010 at 11:49 pm #48775jp10558
MemberI guess this is too late for the original thread but maybe it will help a later person – I had this error when I tried to restore a profile before I formatted the partition in the Zeroshell profile interface.
September 20, 2010 at 12:18 pm #48776cibernuts
MemberHello i have a problem restoring a large profile file about 3 Gb,i tried restoring it using the web interface and I alaways get THE PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED in IE and in mozilla I get “Please wait: this operation may take a few minutes to complete..” and it stays like that and nothing happens(more than 2 days).
Is the any other way restoring the profile ,for example copying the profile using winscp and then restoring it from shell?
Thank you!September 24, 2010 at 12:00 pm #48777ppalias
MemberNot sure about the shell interface. You can try to remove the logs from the tarball and see if this will work now.
October 5, 2010 at 1:12 pm #48778mark_orion
MemberI also had problems with migrating profiles between two 1.0b13 machines by using the backup / restore facility. The restore always terminated with an error message.
What worked for me at the end was to create a copy of the active profile on the source machine and then backup this copy instead of the active profile. This backup could be restored on the destination without any problems.
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