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Michael,
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<br />From your descripition - that new utility does a great job of recreating a vsite, the users, and their settings from a wrecked CODB on another machine. But that doesn't address data. No e-mails, no website, no personal files, nothing besides the configuration to support all that data. I don't see how that could replace cmuExport/cmuImport.
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<br />I have to admit, I'm partial to CMU. I've used those utilities for more than ten years, and they've pulled my butt out of the fire many times. During the last days of BlueQuartz (when a lot of machines were getting infected) - it wasn't unusual for me to cmuExport a server, wipe it, reload from scratch, and cmuImport overnight. Brand new, clean install running the next morning. So I suspect it will take a lot to replace CMU. But I look forward to the attempt, and what might come from it.
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<br />Chuck
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From: Michael Stauber <mstauber@blueonyx.it>
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To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:35:44 -0500
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:15860] Re: new GUI
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<br />> Hi Gregg,
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> I also noticed that there was one thing missing on the new GUI. Maybe
it's
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> hidden some where else I haven't found yet, but there used to be, under
User
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> Management, a way to export the user list. In the new GUI this
feature
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> seems to be missing?
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Yeah, I didn't port that by intent. The Old Export/Import function was
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rather useless. It would export the user list, but wouldn't export the
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passwords. So on import it either randomly assigned new passwords, or
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used the combination username + suffix as the new password.
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It wouldn't export/import any other data.
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As is CMU does handle that a lot better. There you for example have the
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option to export Vsite and User settings alone without any data such as
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webpages, mail or other "ballast".
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Additionally: I've been working on an emergency procedure that allows to
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take a snapshot of a totally wrecked CODB database. You copy that to a
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separate directory on another BlueOnyx (or upload the tarball of it via
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the GUI).
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It then parses the individual CODB Object directories and files within
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that and extracts all relevant data.
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At the end it creates a hash with all the server-settings, Vsite
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settings and User settings. This hash is (at the moment) used to write
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out two Perl scripts. When you run these scripts on a new box, it will
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re-crate the Vsites and Users with all the settings they had before.
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Including the passwords, as the GUI knew the MD5 hashes of them.
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Other export/import formats such as XML or CSV are also thinkable. Or
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letting the box where you uploaded the wrecked CODB automatically
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recreate all (or selected) Vsites and Users recreate directly on it.
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At the moment this is a rather crude "work in progress" that works,
but
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doesn't look nice. Just two days ago I rescued another wrecked BlueOnyx
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with that when its CODB had gone totally corrupt and there were no
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recent backups.
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Eventually (when it's done) it'll make it into BlueOnyx 520XR and will
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replace the old Export/Import functionality. But only when it does the
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job better than "cmuExport -c / cmuImport -c" does it right now.
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With best regards
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<br />>
Michael Stauber
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