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Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.

Offline abarron

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Searched forum but have not found exactly this issue.

First I tried to upgrade my server from v8.1 to V9.0 and for some reason I couldn't make this work.  So I did a fresh install of v8.0 and did all the updates to get v8.1.

Then I started a restore from workstation (which is taking an inordinately long time incidentally) and found that I could no longer access server manager from my browser.  I am able to log into root via a terminal session using PuTTY.

I am not very familiar with Linux and I am trying to tell if the restore is finished by using Wireshark and monitoring the traffic between the server and the workstation (running it on the workstation).

Can I tell if the restore is finished in a better way?  Is there something I can look at via my tty session?

Also any ideas why I can't access server manager.

Thanks in advance for any help.
« Last Edit: April 30, 2015, 02:14:44 AM by abarron »

Offline janet

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2015, 05:13:10 AM »
abarron

Try accessing server manager directly at the server console.
Log in as admin (at the command prompt) & from the menu select server manager.
It will open a text based server manager view

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2015, 04:45:29 PM »
Thank you Janet.  Yes I can access server manager from the console via my terminal connection.

That is I can access the login dialogue and when I supply the appropriate credentials it brings up a new URL and then eventually cycles back to the login dialogue after a few seconds.

This is essentially the same behaviour I am getting from the web interface.

Any more ideas gratefully received.

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2015, 04:54:13 PM »
are you still waiting for the data restore?

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2015, 07:43:14 PM »
Yes Stefano I am,  lot of data.

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2015, 08:12:00 PM »
abarron

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  Yes I can access server manager from the console via my terminal connection.
That is I can access the login dialogue and when I supply the appropriate credentials it brings up a new URL and then eventually cycles back to the login dialogue after a few seconds.
This is essentially the same behaviour I am getting from the web interface.

I do not call that being able to access server manager. I call that NOT being able to access server manager.

Did you configure the identical backup job in server manager, so it can find your backup to do the restore from ?

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2015, 08:12:57 PM »
how much data?
is your raid rebuilding? raid1? raid5?
how is connected the remote machine? 100 MBit? 1Gbit?

you don't need server-manager to monitor restoring..
just login as root and use top, iptraf, df (open at least 3 different sessions)

you'll see what's running (dar), network traffic speed (iptraf), disk space occupation (df)

in the meanwhile, I suggest you to smoke a lot of cigarettes and drink coffee :-)
if you are not a smoker, just start ;-)


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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2015, 08:17:55 PM »
abarron

I do not call that being able to access server manager. I call that NOT being able to access server manager.

Did you configure the identical backup job in server manager, so it can find your backup to do the restore from ?

Yes you are right, sorry.

Yes I had configured the backup the same way, it offered me a selection of backups to restore starting with the last full
backup which is what is currently restoring.

Thank you for your help
« Last Edit: April 30, 2015, 08:40:13 PM by abarron »

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2015, 08:37:24 PM »
how much data?
is your raid rebuilding? raid1? raid5?
how is connected the remote machine? 100 MBit? 1Gbit?

you don't need server-manager to monitor restoring..
just login as root and use top, iptraf, df (open at least 3 different sessions)

you'll see what's running (dar), network traffic speed (iptraf), disk space occupation (df)

in the meanwhile, I suggest you to smoke a lot of cigarettes and drink coffee :-)
if you are not a smoker, just start ;-)


About 750 GB of data
Top shows Dar is running and also MD2_Raid5  is that a raid rebuild?
100Mb network
IPTraf shows traffic that pretty much agrees with traffic from workstation shown by Wireshark.

Guess I have to take up smoking and wait   :shock:

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2015, 08:53:29 PM »
well

750 Gb -> about 75000 MB
100Mb -> about 10 MB/s

then you need at least 75000/10 s -> 22 hours

don't hold your breath ;-)

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2015, 09:04:19 PM »
Ah!  Currently it has been running for about 70 hours.

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2015, 09:08:39 PM »
well, I forgot to say that reid5 rebuilding is a big stress..
please, post the output of
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df -h

and the first 5 rows of
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top

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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2015, 09:17:11 PM »
abarron

Yes that's a lot of data to restore over a 100Mb network & not really practical to do so.

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Currently it has been running for about 70 hours.

It may have hung & you are waiting for nothing. Use the tools Stefano advised to check what is happeneing.

You would be far better off (IMHO) to copy your backup off the workstation to a USB drive (locally connected on sme server formatted as ext3/4) to a correct folder location to suit the backup "layout", & then use that USB drive to restore from on the sme server.
That amount of data might typically take 8 - 10 hours to restore depending on various factors (USB speed, data type etc).
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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2015, 09:22:09 PM »
abarron

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...I tried to upgrade my server from v8.1 to V9.0 and for some reason I couldn't make this work

sme 9 (CentOS 6.5) does not support direct upgrades from prior versions, so the only path to update an older version of sme server, is via backup & restore.

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Can I tell if the restore is finished in a better way?

Server manager restore panel should display the prgress of the restore & tell you when it is complete, I assume you instigated the restore via server manager & then server manager disconnected or you closed it (???).
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Re: Unable to access Server manager during restore from workstation.
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2015, 09:25:26 PM »
abarron

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top shows .... MD2_Raid5  is that a raid rebuild?

Also show output of
cat /proc/mdstat

If your restore is nearing completion, then you may be best to just wait, assuming it is still running.
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