Thanks Charles. Out IPA is a VM too on Openstack but for some reasons they
said it's not good to take snapshots and rely on that for backups... I ll
investigate further tho... cause my idea was exactly that. Snapshots!!!!


Thanks for sharing.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:34 PM Charles Hedrick <hedr...@cs.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> Our IPA servers are VMs. We do backups of snapshots, either through VMware
> or when the image is on a Netapp, through a Netapp snapshot. That
> guarantees that you have all the pieces in a consistent state. I’ve never
> had to restore a production server, but I have started copies of one of the
> backups to do experiments that I didn’t want to do on a production system.
> I’ve never had an issue starting from a backup, though I need to do some
> changes so the system thinks it has the same hostname as the original one.
>
> On Jun 11, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users <
> freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> What's the best procedure/practice  to periodically perform a backup on a
> single freeipa server with CA?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> *Alfredo*
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