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lcreid / simbur

SIMple Back Up and Recovery
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Can't Restore to a Brand New System #15

Open lcreid opened 10 years ago

lcreid commented 10 years ago

The client logs into the server with a key. If the client is a brand new computer, for example, and upgrade or you've lost a disk and are rebuilding a new computer, you don't have the key.

Someone who's a superuser on the server can get the keys from the backup, but that's not a reasonable solution for a "simple" backup tool.

Also, typically you'll be restoring to a different machine name, so you need to be able to specify the source server. You can't just take what's in the .conf file.

lcreid commented 8 years ago

I added a "-u username" option to restore and ls, but it still won't work if you need a different password.