[Freeipa-users] backing up and restoring the backend

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:55:35PM +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> 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
> 

Why not just create a replica? Saves you the restore part at least..