I am currently testing the windows client (assuming same process for mac). I am wondering what the suggested restore procedure is (maybe overlooking it in the admin manual). Below are the steps I performed, and eventually found something that worked…
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I installed the client on a guest machine. had running for a couple weeks collecting backups.
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Un-installed the client from the machine, deleted the folder that was being backed up.
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access our server portal, downloaded the client back to the guest machine.
- unable to access backups from client, error about no access to files.
- tried to perform restore from web gui. action kicks off on guest machine but nothing is restored.
- I am able to of course download a zip of the backup from the web gui.
- what I found worked was:
- add a backup path on the new guest machine.
- perform a full backup of the folder (it was empty)
- if I click browse backups from the client, I do not see the original backups in the web gui.
- if I login to the web gui, and look at backups I see everything, from there I was then able to push one down to the client.
- in short, it seems that you need to install the client on the new machine, then create at least one backup with the server before you’re able to perform a restore. Is this right? thanks in advance.