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fdouteaud
tarball backup
03 October 2007 16:12
Anonymous Hi all,
I wanted to install the new 0.4.7 over my 0.4.5. I did tarball backup from 0.4.5, installed 0.4.7 and then I wanted to use my tarball...but I do not find any option to untar a tarball in system>Tarball Backup!
I see the tarball made in 0.4.5 listed (I moved it in private/backup) but I do not see any button/option to use it to restore my data.

Any help is welcome!

Fabrice
 
siedlerchr
Re: tarball backup
03 October 2007 16:32
Anonymous Hi,

I think it is update, but when you press update you get the error, I've already submitted.


So what to do, I thought?

I extracted the backup manually and uploaded the files manually, but be careful /images/ is now /media/ .

That is the only chance, I think.

Regards,
Christoph
 
fdouteaud
Re: tarball backup
03 October 2007 20:44
Anonymous I thought 'update' was meant to update an existing tarball silly

I am not sure 'update' does what it suppose to then. On my installation, it does not extract anything but it does change the tarball timestamp (I see that from the file system).

Any more help will be welcome here cheerful
 
siedlerchr
Re: tarball backup
03 October 2007 22:33
Anonymous


Do you get an error, when you click update?

Quote:
I am not sure 'update' does what it suppose to then. On my installation, it does not extract anything but it does change the tarball timestamp (I see that from the file system).



I got one of these nice "Drake CMS unhandled error" wink
My problem was: I had some downloads and tarball was'nt working, so what to do?
I extracted them locally and uplaoded them via FTP in the /download/ folder, but now the filesize is missing angry

Yeah and I agree with you, "update" is a bit cofusing, unpack or restore would be better, I think.



 
fdouteaud
Re: tarball backup
04 October 2007 09:19
Anonymous I do not get an error, the system takes a while to respond but it does. I can see that the timestamp of the tarball is changed.

Can someone from the DRAKE team tell us how to restore a tarball???

Thanks a lot,
Fabrice.
 
trex1512
Re: tarball backup
04 October 2007 11:11
Anonymous Hi

On the 13th of September legolas558 posted the following.

Quote by legolas558:

ERRR...!

The 'Update' action will update the selected tarball archive with the contents of the current website, not viceversa!

Actually there is no 'Restore' feature because on some systems it might not be possible to overwrite the currently executed php script.

To restore a tarball backup you should extract it (eventually overwriting) in the Drake CMS root folder; you should always set the flag 'user data only' when restoring between different Drake CMS versions, otherwise you will downgrade your Drake CMS and 100% break it (if you are not using a flatfile database system your database data will still be in place, luckly)!

Once done that, you can restore the database backup (if it was attached to the tarball archive) since it will be found in place under private/backups..


I am sure Daniele will add to this when available.

But in essence, the tarball backup feature creates a tarball of your site, the update just refreshes it..You need to manually extract the tarball contents to the root directory of your website..the veloce.php script can automate the extraction process..see this Thread

Please note comments in the posts re tarball backup options..


TerryF
 
fdouteaud
Re: tarball backup
04 October 2007 21:15
Anonymous Ok, thanks for the info wink

If I can just add a small comment/advise: it would be wise to remove this statement "put the tarball archive into private/backup and extract it using the apposite admin backend feature (System -> Tarball backup)" from the "Updating from a previous version" paragraph on the home page smile
I will save some time to other people!

Thanks,
Fabrice
 
legolas558
Re: tarball backup
04 October 2007 21:32
Anonymous Quote:

Ok, thanks for the info wink

If I can just add a small comment/advise: it would be wise to remove this statement "put the tarball archive into private/backup and extract it using the apposite admin backend feature (System -> Tarball backup)" from the "Updating from a previous version" paragraph on the home page smile
I will save some time to other people!

Thanks,
Fabrice


You're right, sorry for the misleading information - I have just fixed the text
 
siedlerchr
Re: tarball backup
04 October 2007 23:14
Anonymous Ok, now I understand!

But, there is still my question:
I extracted the downnloads manually and uploaded them via FTP in the folder, but now the filesizer of the downloads is missing.
Is therefore the update function=?
 
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