We are seeking ALL the FreeIPA file/database file paths created in the |ipa-server-install| command in the |freeipa-server| package on Ubuntu 18.04. We're looking for a /comprehensive/ list.
Is this feasible?
Details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/im6zjs/where_are_all_the_freeipa_f...
Regards, ~Johnny
On to, 03 syys 2020, Johnny Utahh via FreeIPA-users wrote:
We are seeking ALL the FreeIPA file/database file paths created in the |ipa-server-install| command in the |freeipa-server| package on Ubuntu 18.04. We're looking for a /comprehensive/ list.
Is this feasible?
Details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/im6zjs/where_are_all_the_freeipa_f...
Please use FreeIPA backup/restore tools that already handle what you need to achieve.
On 2020-09-04 12:43 AM, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Please use FreeIPA backup/restore tools that already handle what you need to achieve.
Thanks for the timely feedback.
`ipa-backup` unfortunately does not solve this problem (but we'll still separately employ it). I originally presented the goal poorly. I've clarified in a new reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/iml9y0/wheres_the_freeipa_server_d...
~J
On pe, 04 syys 2020, Johnny Utahh via FreeIPA-users wrote:
On 2020-09-04 12:43 AM, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Please use FreeIPA backup/restore tools that already handle what you need to achieve.
Thanks for the timely feedback.
`ipa-backup` unfortunately does not solve this problem (but we'll still separately employ it). I originally presented the goal poorly. I've clarified in a new reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/iml9y0/wheres_the_freeipa_server_d...
I am not sure this would result in anything supportable from FreeIPA upstream point of view. I would, certainly, not recommend this as a supported configuration if you'd come with such request through the Red Hat support organization.
FreeIPA is not a single application. It is an integrated platform that combines together a lot of disparate components. We cannot coerce all of them to store the data they own in a single place on a file system and we don't need to, typically.
NFS or any other networking file system is not really giving the same guarantees and semantics as a local file system in a UNIX-like operating system environment. Performance-wise this approach is also questionable. While any experiment is possible, I don't think anyone is going to support FreeIPA on an NFS vendor product combined with a Linux vendor product setup, so you would need to invest substantially more than what you think into qualifying such setup.
Alexander et al, makes sense. More details at end of this email.
On 2020-09-05 2:04 AM, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
On pe, 04 syys 2020, Johnny Utahh via FreeIPA-users wrote:
On 2020-09-04 12:43 AM, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Please use FreeIPA backup/restore tools that already handle what you need to achieve.
Thanks for the timely feedback.
`ipa-backup` unfortunately does not solve this problem (but we'll still separately employ it). I originally presented the goal poorly. I've clarified in a new reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/iml9y0/wheres_the_freeipa_server_d...
I am not sure this would result in anything supportable from FreeIPA upstream point of view. I would, certainly, not recommend this as a supported configuration if you'd come with such request through the Red Hat support organization.
FreeIPA is not a single application. It is an integrated platform that combines together a lot of disparate components. We cannot coerce all of them to store the data they own in a single place on a file system and we don't need to, typically.
NFS or any other networking file system is not really giving the same guarantees and semantics as a local file system in a UNIX-like operating system environment. Performance-wise this approach is also questionable. While any experiment is possible, I don't think anyone is going to support FreeIPA on an NFS vendor product combined with a Linux vendor product setup, so you would need to invest substantially more than what you think into qualifying such setup.
Alexander et al- understood, and makes sense. Thank you for your thorough reply, it's quite helpful. We will design our environment accordingly.
More comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeIPA/comments/iml9y0/wheres_the_freeipa_server_d...
Regards, ~Johnny
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