Hi, I was wondering how the backups work on the Raq. Can you just get any kind of drive to hook up to it? Also, when you backup it's saved as a .raq extension, how do you get files from there. For instance, if I wanted to retrieve one clients site and all of the users under that site.

Thanks!!! :)

There have been several threads here about backup procedures. Do a search. You can do semi-full backups, tar-ing multiple directory branches, or you can just backup the user/site files and database contents using rackbackup.sh

You can also go to Google, do an advanced search on 'backup' only on the domain list.cobalt.com for a current thread on backing up a RaQ3.

Run, don't walk, away from the built-in backup in the RaQ. It's WORTHLESS.

Brandon

except the backup is almost useless

There is a nice shell script that might interest you, it's called raqbackup.sh and it's available at http://www.neuhaus-internet.de/cobalt/raqbackup/


This is what the author writes about it:
raqbackup.sh is a little shell-script for the Sun Cobalt RaQ server appliances (version 3, 4 and XTR). You can use this script to backup your RaQ to another server using FTP and the Sun Cobalt Migration Utility (please read the documentation). raqbackup.sh should work on a RaQ2 as well but please note there is no cmuImport-utility available. For MySQL-users I added the possibility to backup all databases using mysqldump. If you use your RaQ as nameserver you can backup the records, too.

the Knox Arkeia is pretty nice. Thats if you have an backup server and a tape loader attached to it :)

Thanks, I'll do the search on Google and check out the site.

That script sounds nice, but is there a way to do it so it doesn't use up bandwidth?

When you use Knox Arkeia does it let you know the the backup has completed and how long does it take to do the backup?

Thanks You all for helping me out.