Yes. If you put a mapping between the new IP address and hostname in /etc/hosts, lookups will use that in preference to the usual one. If you also put the hostname in /etc/hostname and reboot, together those things should make the system believe it has the hostname of your actual server.
> On Jun 25, 2018, at 2:19:16 PM, Alfredo De Luca via FreeIPA-users > <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 run the danger of having an out of date copy giving you out of date data.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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:hedr...@rutgers.edu>> wrote: >> There is actually documentation supporting my view: >> https://www.freeipa.org/page/Backup_and_Restore >> <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 >>> <mailto: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 >>> <mailto: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 >>>> <mailto: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 >>>> <mailto:freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org >>>> <mailto:freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org> >>>> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >>>> <https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html> >>>> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >>>> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> >>>> List Archives: >>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org/message/KKKIFFZZQS4V562HUWYYR6FHGEA4KOYL/ >>>> >>>> <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org/message/KKKIFFZZQS4V562HUWYYR6FHGEA4KOYL/> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alfredo >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/TW5LN5LFE5ZFNP2JP6WTV6CKBERMKGSE/
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