<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>First off, I have opened a ticket to make it clear in the FreeIPA docs what you should do: <A href="https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa-guide/ticket/25">https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa-guide/ticket/25</A> Okay, until I get that done, here is the info on what to do for backing up and restoring the DS in general: <A href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Administration_Guide/Populating_Directory_Databases-Backing_Up_and_Restoring_Data.html">http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Administration_Guide/Populating_Directory_Databases-Backing_Up_and_Restoring_Data.html</A> There are a couple of different options and scripts you can use, aside from just importing and exporting data. Hope that helps! Deon <HR id=zwchr> <DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">From: "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz> To: freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:55:35 PM Subject: [Freeipa-users] backing up and restoring the backend Hi, Backing up I cant find anything in the documentation discussing backing up and recovering IPA/ldap?....in the past I seem to recall the FDS/389 suggested exporting the data which was then backed up.....I think there was a gui to do that.... So even if its a case of now its easy just backup /var/lib/dirsrv and nothing more is needed, it should say so IMHO. Restoring Is there a restore process? so with FDS/389 you would import the exported file. regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users </DIV> </div></body></html>