Restoring a user does.... nothing

[Redevelopment]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a backup server to be able to kick in in case server 1 goes down.
On both servers I've got the same OS (Debian) and DA.

Now I want to create all users on server 2 (the backup server), so I made a User backup from the Reseller panel on server 1 and transferred the tarballs to server 2 (~admin/user_backups).

Now when I go to the Reseller panel on server 2 I go to "Manage User backups". Then in the "Restore Backup" pane I select Local in step 1, then at step 2 I select "Use the IP from the list", and in step 3 I select a couple of the tarballs as a test.

When I submit this restore job DA tells me the job has been added to the task queue, but nothing happens really.
The users aren't created and no files are untarred. I kept an eye on the process with top right after I submitted the job, but nothing gets executed from DA.

I also checked all the logs, but I see nothing that has anything to do with the restore job.

Any ideas?

Ruben.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Try this guide:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=107

John

 

[Redevelopment]

Thanks John, that did the trick.

It's pretty embarrassing, but crond just wasn't running, because of some dependency that failed. I fixed that now and the Restore process runs like a charm.

Ruben.