[Freeipa-users] ipa-backup and ipa-restore

[Martin Kosek]

On 05/27/2015 08:04 AM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> On (25/05/15 10:00), Bob Hinton wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Yes. This fixes the problem on a newly recreated ipamaster - it didn't
>> work on the one I'd been playing around with.
>>
>> So the complete rebuild sequence was...
>>
>> 1) On old ipamaster VM ipa004 (did this on 22/05/2015)
>>     login as an admin user with sudo to root access
>>     sudo -i
>>     ipa-backup
>>     tar cvfPz ipa004_backups_22052015.tgz /var/lib/ipa/backup
>>     scp ipa004_backups_22052015.tgz to a backup system, destroy old
>> ipamaster VM
>>
>> 2) Recreate ipamaster VM (identical configuration to original)
>>    From backup system -
>>    scp ipa004_backups_22052015.tgz admin at ipa004:
>>    ssh admin at ipa004
>>    su                         (enter root password - no users with sudo
>> access exist yet)
>>    tar xvfPz ipa004_backups_22052015.tgz
>>    ipa-restore ipa-full-2015-05-22-17-28-01
>>    systemctl stop sssd
>>    rm -f /var/lib/sss/db/*
>>    systemctl start sssd
> Could  ipa-restore do previous 3 operations?
> 
> LS

It could - on IPA master that is being restored. We still need to address the
other masters and clients...