Hi Tony et all.
AFAIK if I perform a full backup, and one day I need to restore it , I can
but only on the same machine/FQDN... is that right? So if I destroy the IPA
server then create a new one with the same FQDN and options as the first
time then I restore it should be fine?
Cheers
Alfredo
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 5:49 PM Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks Tony. Appreciated.
I will soon do that.
Cheers
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:10 AM Tony Brian Albers via FreeIPA-users <
freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
> Hi Alfredo,
>
> As Peter says, use ipa-backup. I suggest running it twice a day, but
> that depends on how many changes you make in FreeIPA.
>
> Then, get your backup software to backup /var/lib/ipa/backup some time
> after you've run ipa-backup. Or, get your backup software to run
> ipa-backup for you and then back up the destination folder.
>
> It's always easier to restore a system from a full backup, but it takes
> time and demands many full backups which are large in size, demands a
> lot of storage and stresses your network.
>
> I'd run a full backup of the FreeIPA server weekly and incrementals
> twice a day, all of them right after running ipa-backup.
>
> HTH
>
> /tony
>
>
> On 13/06/18 10:07, Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > thanks Peter.
> > I know that having only one server it's not good thats' why for now I
> just want to implement a backup/restore process then one/multiple replicas.
> >
> > About a retore... is it better to restore from a full backup rather
> than only data backup?
> >
> >
> > Cheers
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