I have been following this tutorial on Ubuntu forums for backup/restore of ubuntu server
I have a dedicated server and in case I have to restore the whole server on a new machine, I'm practicing using a virtual machine in vmware.
I've managed to restore all the files by doing an untar of the backup. However I can't get apache to start:
could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name using 127.0.1.1 for servername
and
The Apache error log may have more information
The problem is that there are no logs since I've excluded them from the backup.
Do I need to first install Apache and then untar the backup ?
Is this the proper way to restore the server ? I have some doubts because things like ip address and host name would be different if I create a new dedicated server, so there is potentially a significant number of files that would need to be updated. Is there a recommended way to do that?