[rancid] Restore Older Rancid Configurations to Newer Rancid Server

[Smokeping slt]

hi all.

My older rancid server got currupt due to hard disk failure. I had a backup of all the configuration inside /usr/local/rancid folder[etc, bin share, var]
It stored lot of configurations changes in routers using their coressponding revision numbers.

I freshly installed the rancid system on top of new server. Now I need to restore the older configurations to the new server. I copied the contents of this backup folder to my new server folder.[attached]

But Still the old data not showing. How can I sort out this problem.

your responses are very much.

Thanks

[Smokeping slt]

hi all.

My older rancid server got currupt due to hard disk failure. I had a backup of all the configuration inside /usr/local/rancid folder[etc, bin share, var]
It stored lot of configurations changes in routers using their coressponding revision numbers.

I freshly installed the rancid system on top of new server. Now I need to restore the older configurations to the new server. I copied the contents of this backup folder to my new server folder.[attached]

But Still the old data not showing. How can I sort out this problem.

your responses are very much.

Thanks

[Smokeping slt]

hi ,


tnx for your response. But I didnt get your poing clearly. My fresh installation work fines. Then I restored the config in all /var folder with my older configurations.

what else do I need to do ? Please guide me to solve the issu.

tnx


> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:57:25 +0000
> From: ***@shrubbery.net
> To: ***@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Restore Older Rancid Configurations to Newer Rancid Server
>
> Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:25:00AM +0600, Smokeping slt:
> > I freshly installed the rancid system on top of new server. Now I need to restore the older configurations to the new server. I copied the contents of this backup folder to my new server folder.[attached]
> >
> > But Still the old data not showing. How can I sort out this problem.
>
> IIRC, those tools look directly at the CVS repository, which means to me
> that you have't restored it properly or the config of the web interface
> points to the wrong location. you'd also need to 'cvs update' the rancid
> group dirs.

[P C]

If anyone knows of a migration guide in general or tips/pointers for
performing a migration while retaining data, I would love to hear it.

Sure, it's easy enough to move the config to a new install, but I'm not
terribly familiar with the back end CVS bits interact with rancid and how
fork-lifting a CVS database over might affect things...


2011/6/30 Smokeping slt <***@hotmail.com>

>
> hi ,
>
>
> tnx for your response. But I didnt get your poing clearly. My fresh
> installation work fines. Then I restored the config in all /var folder with
> my older configurations.
>
> what else do I need to do ? Please guide me to solve the issu.
>
> tnx
>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:57:25 +0000
> > From: ***@shrubbery.net
> > To: ***@hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] Restore Older Rancid Configurations to Newer Rancid
> Server
> >
> > Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:25:00AM +0600, Smokeping slt:
>
> > > I freshly installed the rancid system on top of new server. Now I need
> to restore the older configurations to the new server. I copied the contents
> of this backup folder to my new server folder.[attached]
> > >
> > > But Still the old data not showing. How can I sort out this problem.
> >
> > IIRC, those tools look directly at the CVS repository, which means to me
> > that you have't restored it properly or the config of the web interface
> > points to the wrong location. you'd also need to 'cvs update' the rancid
> > group dirs.
>
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[Smokeping slt]

hi all,

Still I couldnt solve this issue. Where this configuration revision numbers stored. I only take the bakup of /usr/local/rancid directory.

Even I restore all the configurations , revision numbers of each configuration file not showned.

I followed the installation process using this URL : http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid

Please help me to solve this out

tnx

[Smokeping slt]

hi ,

tnx for you reply . I search for the files that you have mentioned. But I couldnt find such a file.


[***@rancid ~]# find / -name *.cvs
[***@rancid ~]# find / -name *.svn
/usr/share/doc/pcsc-lite-1.4.4/ChangeLog.svn
[***@rancid ~]#


So this should not be the files which stored revision numbers. I couldnt find where they are stored

your responses are highly.

tnx




Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:59:13 -0700
Subject: Re: [rancid] Restore Older Rancid Configurations to Newer Rancid Server
From: ***@gheek.net
To: ***@hotmail.com

The revision number is stored as part of the SVN/CVS. It should be in the .cvs or .svn files somewhere.


2011/7/10 Smokeping slt <***@hotmail.com>




hi all,

Still I couldnt solve this issue. Where this configuration revision numbers stored. I only take the bakup of /usr/local/rancid directory.

Even I restore all the configurations , revision numbers of each configuration file not showned.

I followed the installation process using this URL : http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid

Please help me to solve this out

tnx