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Q) I have complete backups using affa stored on a usb hard drive connected to our affa backup server. I need to restore an earlier monthly backup of our job "mailbackup" to a test server rather than back to the original system.  If I did it from the backup server I see the instructions of how to rise that server to the current backup on that server but I want to restore a point about a month ago before some strange things happened. And I want to do it on a machine that is not our backup server or our production server. I tried to figure out how but am lost in the options. My goal is to do some testing.

Q) I have complete backups using affa stored on a usb hard drive connected to our affa backup server. I need to restore an earlier monthly backup of our job "mailbackup" to a test server rather than back to the original system.  If I did it from the backup server I see the instructions of how to rise that server to the current backup on that server but I want to restore a point about a month ago before some strange things happened. And I want to do it on a machine that is not our backup server or our production server. I tried to figure out how but am lost in the options. My goal is to do some testing.

A) On your testserver setup a job mailbackup identical to that on your backup server but set property RootDir to /var/affa and property status to disabled. Connect the USB drive and copy the archive of  the job mailbackup to /var/affa. Then run affa --rise mailbackup ARCHIVE

A) On your testserver setup a job "mailbackup" identical to that on your backup server (a copy of the conf file is available into the folder of the archive, as an hidden file ''.mailbackup-setup.ini'') but set property '''RootDir''' to /var/affa and property '''status''' to disabled. Connect the USB drive and copy the archive of  the job mailbackup to /var/affa. Then run affa --rise mailbackup ARCHIVE

 

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