[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 389 Fix ipa-restore on systems without IPA installed

[Jan Cholasta]

Dne 13.1.2015 v 16:47 Petr Vobornik napsal(a):
> On 01/13/2015 11:54 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Dne 13.1.2015 v 10:46 Petr Vobornik napsal(a):
>>> On 01/12/2015 06:07 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the attached patch fixes
>>>> <https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4824>.
>>>>
>>>> Honza
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a reason why `installutils.check_server_configuration() `
>>> is called in `cert_restore_prepare`, ie., method which is not
>>> really connected with it, and not in `run` as for DATA backup?
>>
>> Full restore may be done when IPA is not installed, but
>> cert_restore_prepare crashes when IPA is not installed, the check
>> prevents that.
>>
>> Anyway, see the attached patch for an alternative, possibly better
>> approach.
>>
>
> Works, but with full restore I got:
>
>      ...
>      Disabling all replication.
>      Unable to get connection, skipping disabling agreements: Unable to
> bind to LDAP server: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>      Stopping IPA services
>      Restoring files
>      ...
>
> I wonder if it needs a better error message, it may be confusing for users.

Can you open a ticket for this? I would rather not deal with this right 
now in this patch...

>
> Btw what is the use case for fullrestore without IPA? Is it somewhere
> documented or mentioned?
>

http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/Backup_and_Restore#Catastrophic_hardware_failure_on_a_machine.

-- 
Jan Cholasta