[Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

[Rich Megginson]

On 04/30/2012 04:58 PM, David Copperfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >
> > Currently, there is no disaster recovery or backup information. 
> There are a couple of RFEs open to develop this information. My 
> understanding (and this is something that
> > Dmitri or one of the engineers can explain better) is that the best 
> thing to do is to back up the DS instances using db2ldif and then spin 
> up a new server/replica instance and
> > import the backed up data using ldif2db.
>
> Thanks for pointing out a way to do partial backup/restore.
>
> But the command db2ldif, or its sibling command ldif2db can not be 
> located on IPA master/replica.

look in /var/lib/dirsrv/scripts-YOURDOMAIN-YOURTLD

> The IPA servers only install 389-ds-base and 389-ds-base-libs RPMs. 
> and the two commands doesn't show up anywhere.
>
> Could anyone elaborate how to use the two template commands, or please 
> point me to the document or http link(s) is enough. Thanks a lot.
>
> [root at ipamaster script-templates]# rpm -qa | grep 389
> 389-ds-base-1.2.9.14-1.el6_2.2.x86_64
> 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.9.14-1.el6_2.2.x86_64
>
> [root at ipamaster script-templates]# rpm -ql 389-ds-base 
> 389-ds-base-libs | grep -P 'db2ldif|ldif2db'
> /usr/share/dirsrv/script-templates/template-db2ldif
> /usr/share/dirsrv/script-templates/template-db2ldif.pl
> /usr/share/dirsrv/script-templates/template-ldif2db
> /usr/share/dirsrv/script-templates/template-ldif2db.pl
> [root at ipamaster script-templates]#
>
> --David
>
>
>
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