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A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29 03:4

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2003, 10:08:18 AM »
Ok. Just for info sake, I was using IE 6.

To reinstall, its really a pain. Its really tough to do those things on a production server. Sigh. I think I can just give up using 5.6.

Anyhow, thanks for all the feedback.

Ray Mitchell

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2003, 10:14:31 AM »
The problem is not with sme v5.6 the problem is with Microsoft and Internet Explorer amd how it handles large files

If you have a production server that is stuffed up, then instal Netscape 6.02 on a workstation and try running the restore from desktop again, that way the restore process may complete fully, with the "restore complete" message and after a reboot your server will be OK.

Ray

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2003, 11:35:32 AM »
Just for update again. It didn't work. Tried using opera also. But it still didn't work out.

Now who's fault is it now?

Ray Mitchell

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2003, 12:42:06 PM »
ChanChong

Did you do a fresh instal of sme OS before doing the restore again ?

Ray

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2003, 12:46:53 PM »
sure did. on all occasions, be it netscape, opera.

seems like the only rather reliable way is to actually upgrade the server from using the 5.6 disc. system configurations are there, but some of the databases are missing.

you still reckon its a microsoft problem? could it be a bug somewhere?

if the restore is performed using a 5.5 fresh install, nothing goes wrong. could it be that sme 5.6 dont support 5.5 backup?

Ray Mitchell

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2003, 12:56:16 PM »
Well if you are restoring a v5.5 backup to a v5.6 server then it is possible you may have problems.

From what I have read it may be better to do a fresh instal of v5.5 and then restore the v5.5 backup to the v5.5 server, and after restore has completed OK, then do an upgrade instal of the v5.6 OS software.

Ray

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2003, 12:59:34 PM »
that seems like the only resort. but as i mentioned, some databases are lost.

anyhow, thanks for all the help!

Ray Mitchell

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2003, 01:25:26 PM »
Why should they (databases) be lost, aren't they in the original backup you did ?

Ray

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2003, 01:47:40 PM »
that, i am not too sure. but the databases sure are gone.

the ibays are there, but the databases are gone.

Charlie

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2003, 07:35:45 PM »
Ray Mitchell wrote:
 
> From what I have read it may be better to do a fresh instal
> of v5.5 and then restore the v5.5 backup to the v5.5 server,
> and after restore has completed OK, then do an upgrade instal
> of the v5.6 OS software.

I know of no reason that that would be better (and it's more work). A 5.5 backup should restore onto a 5.6 system with no problems.

Charlie

Tim

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2003, 12:53:12 AM »
Charlie I had the same problem. The only way I resolved it was to restore to 5.5 also then the upgrade. I tried everything and hunted the forum for about a week. Maybe it's something in newer MB's?

Tim

Charlie Brady

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2003, 02:20:43 AM »
Tim wrote:
 
> Charlie I had the same problem. The only way I resolved it
> was to restore to 5.5 also then the upgrade. I tried
> everything and hunted the forum for about a week.

You (apparently) found a bug, but you didn't report it to smebugs@mitel.com - so you didn't try everything.

Charlie

ChanChong

Re: A system restore is in progress. It began at:Tue Apr 29
« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2003, 10:37:51 PM »
Just my 2 cents worth, I think this might happen if,

1) your data set is huge. or simply, your backup file is huge

2) you made many modifications to your server.

other than that, i dont think this will happen. or who knows, there is really a bug.