[Pki-users] Backup/restore of Dogtag servers when migrating FC15 to FC17

[Ade Lee]

One of the tricky things about going from f15 to f17 is that the
mechanism of starting dogtag (and other services) has changed.  F15 (if
I recall correctly) uses init5, but F17 uses systemd.

I would try the following approach:
1. Create a new instance with the same name as your previous instance.
This will create all the relevant systemd files to allow the server to
start up.  In particular, this will also create the symbolic link
- /var/lib/<instance-name>/<instance_name>.  Note where this link
points.

2. Backup and restore the old instance as described in the docs.  You
will be essentially replacing the data in the security databases, config
files etc.  You will likely need to fix the link mentioned above as it
needs to point to the tomcat6 systemd startup script rather than the
init5 one.

Let us know how it goes.

Ade

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 16:37 +0000, Nimeh, Jamil wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that.  I'm running the 9.0 (pki-ca-9.0.20, specifically)
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> Subject: Re: [Pki-users] Backup/restore of Dogtag servers when migrating FC15 to FC17
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> What versions of dogtag are you running?
> 
> On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 12:21 -0700, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
> > Hi all, I was looking at migrating the OS I run the CA, RA and OCSP on 
> > from Fedora 15 servers to Fedora 17.  I saw the section in the admin 
> > guide relating to backup/restore (sec 12.10 in the 8.1 guide) and 
> > wanted to know if this approach will work when the restore is 
> > happening on a different target OS than the source OS (i.e. FC17 from a FC15 source).
> > 
> > Has anyone tried it?  Any pitfalls I need to be aware of above and 
> > beyond the stuff outlined in the documentation?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Jamil
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