[Freeipa-users] Split backup actions in stop - backup - start commands

[David Kupka]

On 16/02/16 20:26, Matt . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fugiring out if it's possible to strip the ipa start and stop from
> the backup method and actually do a fullbackup manually started.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
>

Hello Matt,
you can perform data only backup where freeipa server is still running 
(ipa-backup --data --online).
But IIUC you want full backup with stopped freeipa sever only want to 
manually run sequence ipactl stop ; ipa-backup ; ipactl start

Could you please explain why do you need such behavior? Honestly, I'm 
unable to find use for this.

There's no way how to do it without touching the code. If you don't mind 
editing code just remove two else branches starting on lines 293[0] and 
316[1] in ipaserver/install/ipa_backup.py (on recent Fedoras located in 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/).

With this change full backup will be performed on running server unless 
you stopped it before. It can result in inconsistent data in backup archive.

[0] 
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipaserver/install/ipa_backup.py#n293
[1] 
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipaserver/install/ipa_backup.py#n316

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David Kupka