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

[Martin Basti]

Hello,

can you elaborate more about errors?


On 22.12.2016 09:25, Florence Blanc-Renaud wrote:
> 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'.

Could you check in /var/log/httpd/error_log what is it?
Does cli work well? ipa user-find

Martin
>>
>> 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
>