Thanks heaps.


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 8:16 PM Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com> wrote:
Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> 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?

Yes. The same version of IPA is also required.

rob

>
> Cheers
> Alfredo
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 5:49 PM Alfredo De Luca
> <alfredo.deluca@gmail.com <mailto:alfredo.deluca@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@lists.fedorahosted.org
>     <mailto:freeipa-users@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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