Disaster Recovery empty

NethServer Version: NS8
Module: Disaster Recovery

Hi Everyone:

I am trying to do a disaster recovery of an NS8, but it does not work. (Nothing restored and “no application to restore” )

I now tried to do the disaster recovery in a LAB, but have the same result.

STEPS in LAB:

- Create VM (Rocky linux 9.7) installing Nethserver with curl.

- Configure SAMBA, install Mail, SOGo, Nextcloud and Wordpress as test, creating a single account, creating a test site on wordpress, and import few contacts and calendar in SOGO as a single node cluster.

- Configured Backup as per documentation to local storage (usb ssd passed through to the VM) and ran the backup successfully.

- Downloaded the cluster backup.

- Creted another VM with the same IP address and hostname, installing rocky linux and nethserver the same way as the first one.

- Followed disaster recovery from here : Backup and restore — NS8 documentation

- After step 5 (Enter the encryption secret in the Backup password field.) it is displaying “restoring cluster” without offering any option which application to restore.

- Once it is finished, the only thing that is configured is the backup destination. → no SAMBA or any other application.

- Upon clicking on Restore tab → Restore application, in the pop up window “No application to restore” shows up.

In the logs there is only 1 error:

level=ERROR source=diskstats_linux.go:256 msg=“Failed to open directory, disabling udev device properties” collector=diskstats path=/run/udev/data

Can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong?

The local backup needs to be mounted on the new VM as explained in the local storage docs.

Only steps 2, 3 and 4 are needed. After restarting the rclone-webdav.service the disk should be mounted and the restore of the applications should be possible.