We have the SKS in a old computer that we dont use to backup, so I figure it should be safe to do it once in a while. As its local and for few hundred users, its easier than ask everyone to resend their pks.
Thanks for the help. 2013/5/28 John Clizbe <jpcli...@gingerbear.net> > Rafael wrote: > > We have here a local SKS only for local users, how can I backup and > restore > > all public keys from my server?? > > When I first read the subject I thought, "Why, unless it's for local use > only?" > > Backup --> sks dump > > Restore/Creation --> sks build, followed by sks clean and sks pbuild. > > 'man sks' and 'sks help' should be enough guidance for 'sks dump' > > If it is not too large of a database, you might find it easier to just tar > up > the two DB directories after a bit of cleanup: > > cd /var/sks > for DB in KDB PTree > do > db_recover -h $DB > db_checkpoint -1h $DB > db_archive -dh $DB > done > tar cf sks-dbs.tar KDB PTree > > My inner-sysadmin would do both for backup and prefer the tar ball for > restore. > > One other question as a SKS developer, other than for disaster recovery, > why > do you think you need to backup/restore? It's not needed for upgrades of > SKS > or Berkeley DB, so... why do it? > > [Note: Please read the UPGRADING file in the source[0] (it should also be > in > any distro pkg) BEFORE upgrading SKS and/or BDB. At the very least, you'll > save yourself some unneeded work.] > > -John > > [0] > https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/3785eed0cdbf/UPGRADING > -- > John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net > SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net > FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797 hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or > mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=HELP > > Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" > A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels" > > >
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