Restore not working

tlum

I have loaded new install on new hardware. Ran a backup from the existing server and tried to restore to the new install.

For example I tried to restore only the DHCP server section. Nothing restores and the log has the mesage: /diag_backup.php: XML error: no dhcpd object found!

I have checked the backup file and there is no doubt that the dhcpd section is there

  <dhcpd>
    <lan>
      <range><from>192.168.2.1</from>
        <to>192.168.2.127</to></range> 
      <defaultleasetime>
      <maxleasetime>
      <netmask>
      <failover_peerip>
      <gateway>
      <enable>
      <ddnsdomain>
      <next-server>
      .
      .
      .</next-server></ddnsdomain></enable></gateway></failover_peerip></netmask></maxleasetime></defaultleasetime></lan></dhcpd>

what do you suppose the problem is?

jimp

If you restore a section, the restore function requires that only that section exist in the file (literally you have to cut just the <dhcpd>…</dhcpd> portion out and put it in its own file).

That's been fixed for 2.1 to accept the whole file and just read the requested part.

tlum

Ah… so its not just me.

I ended up doing a backup of both machines and then merging the desired sections from the existing machine backup into the new machine backup and then doing a Restore - All.