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Hi

I have recently been working on a procedure for restoring our Nagios XI environment. That is, all the steps from installing a new server to restoring our latest backup.
When testing this procedure I found that my new test XI instance didn't completely restore to the state of the original.
The configuration for AD-integration, scheduled backups and smtp were missing (maybe others as well?). We also had to enter our License keys again.
Are these settings not contained in the backups?

Our current setup and the new test-machine have similar specs:

• - 64-bit CentOS 7
  - Nagios XI 5.5.2
  - On both systems Nagios XI was installed manually (with the --non-interactive flag on the new system only).

That data is contained in the nagiosxi DB and should be retained during the restore, I've validated that the settings transfer when I restore to another system.

On your XI server, please run the backup and send me the full output:
Then when you restore on the new server, please send me the full output as well:

I tried again today, and everything seems fine this time around.

Does it make a difference whether or not I go through the "Nagios XI Installation" screens in the webinterface before restoring?
I made sure not to open them this time, but I may have filled them out last week, to make sure the installation completed successfully. I don't remember.

Anyway, problem appears to be fixed for now.

Does it make a difference whether or not I go through the "Nagios XI Installation" screens in the webinterface before restoring?

No, you don't need to go through the "Nagios XI Installation" screens in the webinterface before restoring. All of the data, e.g. license key should be restored on the new server.

Anyway, problem appears to be fixed for now.

I am locking this topic. If you have any further questions, please start a new thread.