ok thanks. but can I have a different IP address but same hostname? this is
to check if everything works
/Alfredo
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, 18:24 , <hedrick(a)rutgers.edu> wrote:
Yes. Edit /etc/hosts and add your IP address and hostname. Edit
/etc/hostname to put your hostname.
That works for me.
You should probably make sure that you have iptables on the production
systems to reject connections from the ip address of your copy. Otherwise
you run the danger of having an out of date copy giving you out of date
data.
On Jun 25, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Hedrick.
Jus a quick one. If i want to restore a full backup IPA in a different
host (just for test purpose) can I change the IP address but have the same
hostname/FQDN?
Alfredo
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM <hedrick(a)rutgers.edu> wrote:
> There is actually documentation supporting my view:
>
https://www.freeipa.org/page/Backup_and_Restore Look particularly at the
> section "Why snapshot and not backup and restore scripts?"
>
> The difference is that they suggest stopping a replica before making a
> snapshot, while we snapshot a running system. I’ve done this with a variety
> of databases and other applications. My claim is that a point in time
> snapshot should be safe for any software that is designed to survive a
> crash, because a point in time snapshot is no harder to recover from than a
> crash. We have multiple snapshots, in case we can’t use one of them. But
> I’ve never seen that happen.
>
> We always run complex software systems such a ipa in a VM.
>
> On Jun 23, 2018, at 11:28:37 AM, Alfredo De Luca <
> alfredo.deluca(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Charles. Out IPA is a VM too on Openstack but for some reasons
> they said it's not good to take snapshots and rely on that for backups... I
> ll investigate further tho... cause my idea was exactly that. Snapshots!!!!
>
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:34 PM Charles Hedrick <hedrick(a)cs.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Our IPA servers are VMs. We do backups of snapshots, either through
>> VMware or when the image is on a Netapp, through a Netapp snapshot. That
>> guarantees that you have all the pieces in a consistent state. I’ve never
>> had to restore a production server, but I have started copies of one of the
>> backups to do experiments that I didn’t want to do on a production system.
>> I’ve never had an issue starting from a backup, though I need to do some
>> changes so the system thinks it has the same hostname as the original one.
>>
>> On Jun 11, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users <
>> freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>> What's the best procedure/practice to periodically perform a backup on
>> a single freeipa server with CA?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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>> *Alfredo*
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