[Fedora-directory-users] Console - Administration Panel

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 06:53 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:25 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>OK - while mucking around with console and certificates, I manually
> >>>clipped out the stuff from admin-serv/config/adm.conf & console.conf and
> >>>local.conf and seem to have everything back in order.
> >>>
> >>>I restart the admin-serv and the encryption stuff comes right back into
> >>>local.conf and I can't figure out where it is coming from.
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>It's stored in the directory server under o=netscaperoot - do an 
> >>ldapsearch for
> >>ldapsearch -b o=netscaperoot -D "cn=directory manager" -w password 
> >>"cn=configuration"
> >>
> >>The local.conf file is just a read-only cache of that information.
> >>
> >>If you cannot edit it using the console, you can use ldapmodify
> >>1) find the full dn of the entry using the ldapsearch as above
> >>2) identify the attributes that deal with the encryption stuff
> >>3) use ldapmodify like the following:
> >>ldapmodify -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
> >>dn: cn=configuration,.....
> >>changetype: modify
> >>replace: nameofattr
> >>nameofattr: newvalue
> >>    
> >>
> >----
> >Thanks - I can probably do that but it occurred to me that I should just
> >probably restore from my last backup but now I can't find my backup.
> >
> ># ls -l /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak
> >total 0
> >
> >I had created 2 separate backups using the console application (and even
> >restored once so I know that it worked) but now they are nowhere to be
> >found and so I can't restore.
> >
> That's really strange.  I've never seen this happen before.
> 
> >I'm beginning the think that the console
> >application - though exceedingly dangerous in this rookie's hands is
> >possibly not quite ready for prime time...why did the backups disappear?
> >  
> >
> I have no idea.  I've never seen this before.  The console has been used 
> for this purpose for 7 years now in large production environments and 
> this is the first time I've ever heard of this happening.
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I am a bit disconcerted about this - I ***know*** that I didn't delete
the backups in /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak and was of the opinion that
this is where the console put these backups. Perhaps they were removed
when I restored using the console.

OK - presuming that using the console to backup or command line to
backup ( db2bak /opt/redhat-ds/servers/slapd-
dirserver/bak/bak_2001070110) are the same thing - a complete backup of
the DSA...

Then I would want to periodically back up /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak
as a 'just in case' this happens again thingy...

Just for confirmation of what - console backup or db2bak actually
backup...

1. does this backup configuration too?

2. does this backup items in /opt/fedora-ds/alias or should I do that
separately?

3. Is there anything else that I need to back up to get a reasonably
quick 'restore' to previous functionality to guard against my uneducated
bullets to my feet?

Thanks

Craig