On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 06:53 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:25 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote: > > > > > >>Craig White wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>OK - while mucking around with console and certificates, I manually > >>>clipped out the stuff from admin-serv/config/adm.conf & console.conf and > >>>local.conf and seem to have everything back in order. > >>> > >>>I restart the admin-serv and the encryption stuff comes right back into > >>>local.conf and I can't figure out where it is coming from. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>It's stored in the directory server under o=netscaperoot - do an > >>ldapsearch for > >>ldapsearch -b o=netscaperoot -D "cn=directory manager" -w password > >>"cn=configuration" > >> > >>The local.conf file is just a read-only cache of that information. > >> > >>If you cannot edit it using the console, you can use ldapmodify > >>1) find the full dn of the entry using the ldapsearch as above > >>2) identify the attributes that deal with the encryption stuff > >>3) use ldapmodify like the following: > >>ldapmodify -D "cn=directory manager" -w password > >>dn: cn=configuration,..... > >>changetype: modify > >>replace: nameofattr > >>nameofattr: newvalue > >> > >> > >---- > >Thanks - I can probably do that but it occurred to me that I should just > >probably restore from my last backup but now I can't find my backup. > > > ># ls -l /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak > >total 0 > > > >I had created 2 separate backups using the console application (and even > >restored once so I know that it worked) but now they are nowhere to be > >found and so I can't restore. > > > That's really strange. I've never seen this happen before. > > >I'm beginning the think that the console > >application - though exceedingly dangerous in this rookie's hands is > >possibly not quite ready for prime time...why did the backups disappear? > > > > > I have no idea. I've never seen this before. The console has been used > for this purpose for 7 years now in large production environments and > this is the first time I've ever heard of this happening. ---- I am a bit disconcerted about this - I ***know*** that I didn't delete the backups in /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak and was of the opinion that this is where the console put these backups. Perhaps they were removed when I restored using the console. OK - presuming that using the console to backup or command line to backup ( db2bak /opt/redhat-ds/servers/slapd- dirserver/bak/bak_2001070110) are the same thing - a complete backup of the DSA... Then I would want to periodically back up /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/bak as a 'just in case' this happens again thingy... Just for confirmation of what - console backup or db2bak actually backup... 1. does this backup configuration too? 2. does this backup items in /opt/fedora-ds/alias or should I do that separately? 3. Is there anything else that I need to back up to get a reasonably quick 'restore' to previous functionality to guard against my uneducated bullets to my feet? Thanks Craig
