Ok I am moving my site, and I thought rather than move 70 MB of stuff via FTP, I'd to go to the control panel for a back up, so I could just FTP a zip or tar file, and open it up on the new server.
Ok so I made a back up and it's called something.raq.
What the heck do I do with a .raq file?
Oh, yeah by the way, I am not moving to a raq. I am moving to a *nix.

What you need is to download the remove .raq header script from sourceforge. (Its a perl script)

Run the .raq file with the .raq header script to remove the headers on a Nix system and you will end up with a tar file called output.tar

You will be able to uncompress that file with most uncompressors.

Thanks.
That sounds good, but I can't find there.

http://cobalt-aid2.lindist.dk/allfiles/stripheader-raqs.tgz

Here you go.

WOW! Thanks.
Now does anybody know how to use it?

Ive done it 6 times. .raq files are just plain horrible and stupid.

Prepping the header-raq.tgz file

gunzip header-raq.tgz

File becomes header-raq.tar

Untar it.

It iwll become some .pl file.


Place the .raq in the same folder of the .pl file.

type: ./something.pl XXXXXXXXXXXXX.raq


You will get an output, such as a tar file.
ie: out.tar

now untar that file and voila!

Oh forgot something.

I think .raq file contains some of cobalt's directory structure too.
ie: mail

You will have to move around and delete folder and files.
Im not too sure, but than again, for moving from servers, from a cobalt to a nix server, I prefer just to tar up the whole website into one file instead of using the crappy .raq backup util.

I would love to tar the whole site, but they don't allow telnet anymore. I was told to use Cpanel, but my account is so old, (3 years) that I don't even have Cpanel, just some cobalt thingy that only creates emails, and makes backups. I have grown to like the simplicity of this RAQ, but now I need a few features this host does not have.
Heck, in trying to use this .pl scipt, I found I had to change the name to .cgi, and they are in the same folder, but I just couldn't figure out how to run header-raq.cgi against the .raq file.
This whole thing is making me feel stupid.
I always have a recent and total backup of my site on my HD, the problem is, I have a project folder in just about every directory with experiments, original (unedited) images, notes, ect. and thought it would just be eaiser to tar the site online, then untar it on the new server.
I alos tried FlashFXP, but no go.
Thanks, again for every ones help.

I'll give this header thing one more try, then I guess it's back to the old fashioned "control > select > FTP > wait for hours > then test" thing.

Hmmmm............ you have to run the .raq file under any unix /linux system. Doesnt work in windows.

If you dont have a linux box sitting or dual boot with Linux win workstation, then its kinda of hard to remove the headers.

But anyways, I think you are stuck with downloading your whole website and re-uploading it.

I don't do windoze!
I uploaded both files (header-raq.cgi and the mysite.raq) to my nix server. How do I make the header file run the mysite.raq file?

You execute the perl script just like any perl script.

./hearderremover.pl raq4lahblahbah.raq

I got 2gb of back up raq 4 file, will it work too using the "stripheader-raq3.pl" ?

Can I somehow uncompress it, break it into pieces?

The back up file is *20040411-0426.raq

See is the host is nice enough to tar your whole /home directory for you. Then leave the home.tar in the html directory for you to download or ftp.