But how is a backup guaranteed to be consistant? With the FDS I played with some years back I could dump out the db into a flat file which could then be backup...
regards ________________________________________ From: freeipa-users-boun...@redhat.com [freeipa-users-boun...@redhat.com] on behalf of Dmitri Pal [d...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 1:14 a.m. To: freeipa-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] How is/to get IPA backed up? On 05/23/2011 11:02 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > ie on FDS I think you can do an export to a flat file and then import > it....that way the backup client can backup a flatfile and not attempt to do > the database.... > > regards > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipa-users mailing list > Freeipa-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users We have not documented it yet. But the general approach: A) If you run just one server (which is not recommended) run a full system backup frequently. It will be much simpler than trying to do backup of all pieces and config files affected by IPA. B) If you run replicated environment and lost one of the servers you can stand up another server. Variant 1: You want to preserve replica's name a) Install a new replica on a new hardware/VM following a standard replica installation procedure. b) Remove replication agreements with the old replica that became unavailable. Variant 2: You want to preserve replica's name a) Create a package for the failed replica following the standard procedure (ipa-replica-prepare) b) On the IPA server that generated the replica run: ipa-replica-manage init replica.example.com This will initialize replica as it will be empty at the beginning c) Install replica on a new hardware/VM This is the general direction but we have not done extensive testing (thus have not documented it) -- Thank you, Dmitri Pal Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project, Red Hat Inc. ------------------------------- Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
