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 , <hedr...@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 you run the danger of having an out of date copy giving you out of date 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.del...@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 <hedr...@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.del...@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 <hedr...@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@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 >>> >>> -- >>> *Alfredo* >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>> freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org >>> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >>> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >>> List Archives: >>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org/message/KKKIFFZZQS4V562HUWYYR6FHGEA4KOYL/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> *Alfredo* >> >> >> > > -- > *Alfredo* > > >
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