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

[Matt .]

Hi David,

I have tested your way out and it seems to be OK.

The reason why I need this was is so I can perform a stop and
ipa-backup before I start my backup to my backupserver. (pre-command).

If I use ipa-backup directly it errors between the stop of ipa and the
actual ipa backup. I need to check that out further.

An ipactl start is not needed it seems as the ipa-backup command seems
to start ipa at any time again.

Do you understand/agree here ?



2016-02-17 8:00 GMT+01:00 David Kupka <dkupka at redhat.com>:
> 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
>
> --
> David Kupka