How to recover a domain from accidental delition

Article updated on 01 July, 2008

Description

This article describes the procedure to recover a domain after deletion.

Error cause

A directory with the same name already exists!

Resolution

When a domain is deleted via the WEBADMIN interface it is not physically deleted from the hard disk and can be restored.

Bellow are the steps for recovering a domain from an accidental deletion:

-login via the CLI interface:
telnet <AXIGEN IP ADDRESS> 7000
<login> user admin
<password> ******

-
issue the following commands in order to restore a domain. We will use for exemplification the domain.test which was deleted and it's location on the hard disk is under the /var/opt/axigen/domains folder.
<#> REGISTER Domain domainLocation /var/opt/axigen/domains/domain.test
<domain-register#> commit
<#> save config
<#> quit


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