[support] Restoring from backup / cannot then save nodes as "published" as administrator

[Darrell Eifert]

Hello --

I've been testing our Drupal 6 backups in order to simulate a disk 
crash.  I'm using an rsync backup program to transfer everything under 
'www' to a Windows network share, including the daily mysql backups 
created by the Backup and Migrate module.

When I restore the files to an empty test subfolder inside www, reset 
the settings.php, re-install Drupal, and restore the most resent sql 
dump from Backup and Migrate, everything looks fine until I attempt to 
modify and save any of the pages.  (Note that I am logged in as 
administrator).  The pages are saved as "unpublished", and however many 
times I select "Published" just before saving the page the status 
doesn't change.  Note also that the page comes up in edit with 
"Published" unchecked, even though it is published on the production 
site.  I've checked, and Administrator does have "administer node" 
privileges.

As this is my primary backup strategy, I would like to know some ways of 
determining where the problem may lie.

Thanks in advance ...

-- 
Best,

Darrell Eifert
Lane Memorial Library
(603) 926-3368