[Freeipa-users] backing up and starting over...

[Florence Blanc-Renaud]

On 12/21/2016 10:26 PM, Robert Story wrote:
> I'm running a small instance of freeipa on CentOS 7 in our lab, for about 20
> machines. Since CentOS 7.3 came out and upgraded from 4.2 to 4.4, things
> have gotten flaky. e.g. clicking on a user get the spinning 'Working'
> dialog and can take 3-5 minutes to load the page. But often it will die
> with 'internal error'.
>
> Is there a way to back up data so that I can re-install 4.4 and restore the
> data? Specifically users+uids/groups+gids, HBAC and sudo rules?
>
>
> Robert
>
>
>
Hi,

you can find more information about backup and restore procedure in this 
guide [1]. But, as stated in the documentation, the safest method would 
rather be to install a replica [2].

HTH,
Flo

[1] 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/backup-restore.html
[2] 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/install-replica.html