Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Hi all.
> I need to setup a freeIPA replica and not sure which is the best and
> more reliable. 
> I found a few people preparing the replica from the server others just
> installing the replica on another machine with the appropriate
> configuration.
>
> Any info/docs? 

It depends on the version of IPA (and the knowing the distro would help
too).

For 4.x+ you want to start with:

$ ipa domainlevel-get

If it is domain level 1 then you can install the new machine as an IPA
client and then promote it to a master by running ipa-replica-install.

For domain-level 0 you need to run ipa-replica-prepare on an existing
master and then ipa-replica-install <gpg file> on the new master.


rob