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A looooong time ago there was a doc that detailed performing a manual restore of nagios. Does anyone have the link? or is thier an updated version available?

Is this what you're looking for? https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

How do I restore an XI backup that had an offloaded database to another XI server that has a different offloaded database server?

Additionally if I was restoring for testing purposes and my test server I am restoring to doesn't have an offloaded database server how do I restore the original backup to the test server?

benhank wrote:How do I restore an XI backup that had an offloaded database to another XI server that has a different offloaded database server?

Untar the backup, modify the config, retar. - that's a guess and would have to be tested in a lab, but I know of no reason why it wouldn't work.

benhank wrote:Additionally if I was restoring for testing purposes and my test server I am restoring to doesn't have an offloaded database server how do I restore the original backup to the test server?

Same process, just 'localhost' instead of 'offloaded dbhost'

jdalrymple wrote:

benhank wrote:How do I restore an XI backup that had an offloaded database to another XI server that has a different offloaded database server?

Untar the backup, modify the config, retar. - that's a guess and would have to be tested in a lab, but I know of no reason why it wouldn't work.

benhank wrote:Additionally if I was restoring for testing purposes and my test server I am restoring to doesn't have an offloaded database server how do I restore the original backup to the test server?

Same process, just 'localhost' instead of 'offloaded dbhost'

I think the restore scripts need to be more accommodating for these situations. I tried exactly what you suggested last week and it was a real headache and I couldn't get it to work.

Feature request or bug report?

I think I have found something that will be causing some issues with backups and restores.

In this file on your source server:

/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/xi-sys.cfg

Does it have a bunch of lines starting with:

cfg__

Hi Box 293,

benhank is out sick so I am taking over for him on this.

yes, there is xi-sys.cfg in /usr/local/nagiosxi/var on the source server
with a bunch of lines starting with cfg__

Interesting. What is it? I don't recall editing it.

I've included it as an attachment

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This file gets created/updated during a full install or upgrade. We've recently found with the newer versions of XI that it is being populated with all of these cfg__ values and this in turn is affecting the backup and restore process (it won't be affecting your current backups though, don't be alarmed).

I'm doing some testing on a beta version of XI so once I get my head around this I'll get back to you and Ben once I've got a better idea.