[Fedora-directory-users] Creating backup LDAP server.

[Rich Megginson]

John Oliver wrote:
> Since I figured I was pretty well screwed anyway, I deleted
> /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 and re-ran setup-ds-admin.pl  To my
> amazement, it was able to complete successfully!  It went all the way
> through, create an adm.conf and other files, etc.  I was able to log in
> to the web admin screen.
>
> So, I ran /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/bak2db to restore the
> database I'd copied over.
Unfortunately (for your case), when you do bak2db, it copies all of the 
databases - your user/group database (userRoot), and the console 
information database (NetscapeRoot).  So if you restore it on your new 
instance . . .
> That looked very promising, but there were
> two points where it said it was deleting an attribute of unix-services2
> and then adding one for unix-services, which is the other, live machine.
> After that, clicking on Fedora Administration Express gave me an error.
>   
. . . you wipe out the new information you just created with 
setup-ds-admin.pl
> I just went back to copy-and-paste it, but now I get an Internal Server
> Error, and /var/log/httpd is empty.
>   
/var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv - but it doesn't matter, because the restore 
from the other backup probably wiped out the information needed by the 
console.
> Since I seemed to make some progress, I stopped dirsrv, deleted
> /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2
and /var/*/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and 
/usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and 
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv, 
and all files in /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv except for admserv.conf, 
httpd.conf, console.conf, and nss.conf
> and re-ran setup-ds-admin.pl  When it
> was done, I could get in to the admin interface again, only now it shows
> me slapd-unix-services and slapd-unix-services2  So, I'm not sure if
> that's progress or not.
>
> I want to wind up with a working backup of slapd-unix-services so if
> that machine takes a crap, I can just bring up an interface with it's IP
> address on slapd-unix-services2 and keep LDAP authentication working
> while I puzzle out what went wrong on the first server.
>   
Replication?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3258 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/attachments/20080710/15f5264e/attachment.bin>