[Box Backup] Server drive failed

[Diego Ongaro]

Thanks for your help. I did experience a little more difficulty since
the bbstored server still had its /etc in-tact. bbstoreaccounts check
and bbstoreaccounts delete kept giving me the error:
Exception: Common OSFileError (Error accessing a file. Check
permissions.) (1/9). 
bbstoreaccounts create was saying the account exists.

I finally cleared the accounts.txt file and was then able to create the
accounts again. Maybe there should be a force create option?

-Diego

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 10:15 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
> The Box Backup clients will realise that all the previous data has  
> vanished from the server, and upload it again without operator  
> intervention. Remember, it's advertised as a "completely automatic"  
> system.
> 
> Just run bbstored again (after recreating the accounts with  
> bbstoreaccounts), and everything will work.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 Jan 2007, at 07:44, Diego Ongaro wrote:
> 
> > To clarify, we did lose the data on the server that was our  
> > boxbackup server running bbstored. These backups are almost purely  
> > in case the boxbackup client (bbackupd) server goes down, so I'm  
> > not very concerned with old and deleted files. The drive was not on  
> > a hardware or software RAID, nor were we using boxbackup's software  
> > raid. We have already installed a new drive but have stopped the  
> > bbstored service.
> >
> > Per said we need to "redo all the backups", and the intent of my  
> > initial question was to ask how to do that. For example, is there a  
> > command I need to run on the clients to tell them they need to do a  
> > full re-sync?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Diego Ongaro
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 06, 2007 03:07 AM, Ben Summers <ben@fluffy.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 5 Jan 2007, at 20:30, Diego Ongaro wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Our boxbackup server's large drive has failed. We still have /etc
> >>>> and /
> >>>> on a different (smaller) drive that didn't fail, but we lost the
> >>>> actual
> >>>> server data. How can we bring our backups back up?
> >>>
> >>> Per's response is of course correct if you have lost your server,
> >>> which runs bbstored. It's just like you lost your tapes if you had
> >>> been using tape backup.
> >>>
> >>> But if you mean a server running the Box Backup client, bbackupd,  
> >>> you
> >>> want to read this:
> >>>
> >>>    http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki/VerifyAndRestoreBackups
> >>>
> >>> Ben
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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