Ability to go back within the installation setup wizard

[luckym]

Hi,

I wanted to restore Cloudron from a backup but in the setup wizard under "Domain Setup" mindlessly filled in the DNS information and clicked next instead of clicking on "Looking to restore".

Now I'm on the "Welcome to Cloudron" page to set up an admin account without any apparent way to go back to the previous step in the setup.

I know this is probably not a common use-case but as far as I understand I will have to re-install Ubuntu on the VPS server and then download and re-install Cloudron again, which is maybe around half an hour I would save if there was such a button

Is there any way to reset the setup, or go to the restore page via direct link?

[girish]

@luckym said in Ability to go back within the installation setup wizard:

I know this is probably not a common use-case but as far as I understand I will have to re-install Ubuntu on the VPS server and then download and re-install Cloudron again, which is maybe around half an hour I would save if there was such a button

that is unfortunately the case, yes.

Is there any way to reset the setup, or go to the restore page via direct link?

No, you have to reinstall.

When you start setting up stuff, bunch of routes get disabled and it's all "one way" . This is done for security as well - for example, you don't want to have activation routes available after activation to prevent data loss.

But maybe we can put some script to reset the database/state if this happens often. I will move this to Feature Request, thanks!

[luckym]

Ok, no worries, thank you for confirming!

[jdaviescoates]

@luckym said in Ability to go back within the installation setup wizard:

I wanted to restore Cloudron from a backup but in the setup wizard under "Domain Setup" mindlessly filled in the DNS information and clicked next instead of clicking on "Looking to restore".

I've done this before too.

Perhaps @staff could look at making the "Looking to restore" bit that's tiny at the bottom a lot more obvious?

And maybe even add another step afterwards that asks "are you actually looking to restore? go back" or something?