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COMPUTICA
10-31-2002, 03:05 PM
Hello,

Recently, I played around with the backup/restore solution that Cobalt
has pre-installed..... I know it is CRAP, but I just wanted to see what
would happen if I backed up and tried to restore a site....then I am
fully aware of what I would be dealing with if a client ever did this
on their own.....

I backed up a site that is about 2 MB in total size......then tried to
restore it. So anyway, the backup process worked fine......but when I
tried to restore, it went on and on forever.....

When the restore didn't work, I figured okay.....I played, now I am
done. Wrong.....

The /home/tmp folder has three files in it now that are HUGE in size!!!

Can I delete them without any worries???

The files are:

restore-files-bad.11777 (1892486939)
restore-files-bad.7782 (1943977421)
_site_20021023-0949.raq (7873180)

Any insight is appreciated...

-Edward-
11-01-2002, 02:42 PM
Anything in tmp can be removed. Just remember if you have MySQL setup and it stores the mysql.sock file in there you'll need to restart MySQL if u removed it, But everything in that directory is okay to delete.

COMPUTICA
11-01-2002, 02:44 PM
Thanks! Just wanted to double check before I went and started deleting files.....

I figured I could, but my thoughts have come back to bit me in the a$$ in the future because of stuff I deleted....