[Freeipa-users] Backup and Restoration of IPA Server

[Christian Hernandez]

I also Snapshot Cold.

Since I have many replicas; it's really no big deal in shutting down an IPA
server for a few seconds to get a quiescent snapshot


Thank you,

Christian Hernandez
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On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem I had with snapshots is I found if snapshoting hot they got
> confused and the users all doubled on some replicas, on others replication
> broke...very weird...
>
> So snapshot cold.
>
> regards
>
> Steven Jones
>
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
>
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
>
> 0064 4 463 6272
>
> ________________________________________
> From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> on behalf of Dmitri Pal [dpal at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, 4 February 2013 7:01 a.m.
> To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Backup and Restoration of IPA Server
>
> On 02/03/2013 12:10 PM, Rajnesh Kumar Siwal wrote:
> > As the IPA server has been the backbone of any Company, is there any
> > recommended approach for Backup/Restore.
> > Please suggest the best approach how to backup and rebuilt the server
> > from scratch and restore the IPA Server.
> >
>
> For redundancy we recommend running several replicas so that if you
> loose one you can easily redeploy.
> It you want, you can run one of the replicas in a VM and take snapshots
> of the whole system.
>
> A more fine grained Backup/Restore procedure is on the roadmap for the
> next release.
>
> --
> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
>
> Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
> Red Hat Inc.
>
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