I am reviewing our restore process for virtualmin. We have two seperate servers with two licenses. One stays dormant just in case... If we do have to do a restore what should we choose for options assuming we want to restore the entire settings with all the sites? I assume you have to restore each individual site as the backups create each site tar backup seperately. Is it generally ok to choose the "restore all features", and check each virtualmin settings to restore.
Is this section ok by default? Do I choose Virtual IP (Already Active) if the other server's ip address is 192.168.1.53?
Re-allocate UIDs and GID? Yes No
Just re-import server details? Yes No
Only create servers with selected features? Yes No
IP address for restored servers Original IP address
Shared, on IP 192.168.1.43
Virtual with IP ( Already active )
If it makes any difference one they are both Centos boxes. One is 32 bit and one is 64 bit. Both servers have all updates applied.
Thank you
I assume you have to restore each individual site as the backups create each site tar backup seperately. Is it generally ok to choose the "restore all features", and check each virtualmin settings to restore.
Actually, you're quite welcome to restore everything at once if you like... rather than pointing the restore process at one file, you can point it at the directory containing all the files.
And yeah, if I were looking to have a backup of everything, I'd definitely choose to have it restore all features.
Do I choose Virtual IP (Already Active) if the other server's ip address is 192.168.1.53?
Well, you may need to do some testing here to make sure this works as you need... in fact, I'd always suggest testing the entire backup and restore process prior to actually needing it.
That said, which option to pick here kind of depends on what you would do if the primary box goes down.
If your IP address scheme is 192.168.1.x, that makes it sound like you're behind a NAT router. If that's the case, is your plan to just change the port forwarding from your old server to your new one? If so, I might just have it use the shared IP on your box, 192.168.1.43.
But whatever you choose, be sure to test it out! :-)
-Eric
Yes basically we have a service group with all the needed nat ports in our firewall. This makes it very easy if we have an issue to change one internal ip address to the new server and everything will work from DNS to routing. We have tested the restore but not changed the routing to test all the way. I guess worse case we can restore with 192.168.1.43 except the idea is we would get the other server back up and running and the backup server has other services that depend on its IP 192.168.1.53. Would I select virtual with IP and select the check box "already active"? One I have this sorted I will try a real test.
Howdy,
I think I may be getting confused about which IP is running on which server.
However, my suggestion for your case is to use the backup servers existing IP address.
When performing the restore, you should have an option to restore to the existing shared IP address on your backup server.... it should be the default option.
I wouldn't recommend using a virtual IP in your circumstance.
Does that answer your question?
-Eric
Eric, Thnks for the response. That is the default option but I dont think that will accomplish what I am trying to do. To be clear I would like to test with the primary server 192.168.1.43 still up and runnng and restore to 192.168.1.53. What option is the correct choice to accomplish this? Basically I would like to restore all the settings except for the IP address of the primary machine.