Issue restoring backup

Virtualmin
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I’m trying to restore a backup from a Virtualmin Pro installation to a Virtualmin GPL installation to retrieve some files, however when I try and run the restore, I get an error message referring to Reseller accounts (I have a few accounts on the Pro install).

Can I not restore from Pro to GPL if reseller account is present?

Thanks,

Paul

2

Howdy,

Hmm, are you restoring a backup of a Virtual Server, or is it the “virtualmin.tar.gz” backup file that you’re restoring?

-Eric

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Hi Eric,

Its a backup of a Virtual Server.

One thing to add is that it is a sub domain, so i have created the top level domain and now the error message is related only to the missing reseller account.

Paul

4

Am I missing something crucially obvious here?

I am still encountering this error on restore.

5

I’ll talk to Jamie about that… it may not be possible to restore a Virtual Server that has reseller info in it on a Virtualmin GPL server. Jamie may know of a workaround though, I’ll let you know what he says.

-Eric

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Also, note that if you just need some files, you could always just manually untar the backup file.

-Eric

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Okay, Jamie tells me it should work if you restore it via the command line.

You can use the “virtualmin restore-domain” command, and just make sure you pass in the “–skip-warnings” flag as a parameter.

-Eric

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Hi Eric,

I have tried that but all that appears inside the tar file is loads of folders, and trying to find the correct folder is difficult. Unless I’m doing something incorrectly?

Paul

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Thanks Eric, I will try this.

Paul

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Howdy,

You should see all the folders that were part of your Virtual Server… for example, the public_html folder.

If the file you wanted was within the public_html folder, you could untar the backup file, and then go into the public_html folder to find your file.

If you have your backup file in a temporary directory, and it’s named “domain.tar.gz”, you can untar it by typing “tar zxvf domain.tar.gz”. All the files and directories within that will start appearing in your current directory.

-Eric

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Any results Pixel_paul ? I’m facing the similar issue restoring backups of domains.

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Have you tried using the command line to do the restore as suggested by eric?