NagiosXI Restore_XI

[JulianFDRacing]

I have a VM running NagiosXI 2011 and have created a backup with backup_xi, I have just downloaded the latest 2012 version of Nagios XI and scp'd the file over to the new box, when I try to restore_xi the backup zip file I get the following message

[root@localhost scripts]# ./restore_xi.sh /store/backups/nagiosxi/1350396800.zip
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
arch: invalid option -- 'm'
Try `arch --help' for more information.
Error detecting architecture.

If I copy the file over to a Windows box I can open the file with Winzip happily and can also use "unzip" on the Nagios server and it extracts the contents without issue.

[scottwilkerson]

One thing changed in late 2011 version and that is the format of the backup, we had to change to gz from zip because zip's have a max filesize that was being exceeded.

On the 2011 VM you should be able to perform the upgrade by running the following commands

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cd /tmp
rm -rf nagiosxi xi*
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf xi*.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagiosxi
./upgrade

[JulianFDRacing]

I dont want to restore or make any changes on the 2011 box, this is production, I want to check that I can backup and restore to the new version 2012 running under the demo license (for now). The 2011 install is an old installation thats in a bit of a mess from previous employees who didn't have a clue, I feel happier transferring the config over to a new un-botched installation of 2012 on physical hardware rather than a VM.

There is a way of achieving this as this 2011 box is a VM and can be snapshotted in ESX, I could then run the update, do a backup and then restore the VM back to pre-snapshot state, its a bit messy and would impact our SLA's so not too keen.

Is there another option?

Thanks

[scottwilkerson]

I am attaching a copy of the old restore script.

Unzip and put script in /usr/local/nagios/scripts

Then restore your backup with the following

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cd /usr/local/nagios/scripts
chmod +x ./restore_xi_old.sh
./restore_xi_old.sh /store/backups/nagiosxi/1350396800.zip

[JulianFDRacing]

Works like a charm, thanks