Expanded Backup Design

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Overview

When taking a backup of the database the server will also backup schema files, dse.ldif, and certificate related files. These files are not restored automatically as it could break the server. However, they are there if needed. or if they are needed as a reference to the state of the server when the backup was taken.

Design

These are the files that are archived during a backup (db2bak)

• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/dse.ldif
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/key4.db
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/cert9.db
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/pin.txt
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/pwdfile.txt
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/certmap.conf
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/slapd-collations.conf
• /etc/dirsrv/slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE/schema/*

These files are placed in the backup directory as follows:

• /backup_dir/config_files/dse.ldif
• /backup_dir/config_files/key4.db
• /backup_dir/config_files/cert9.db
• /backup_dir/config_files/pin.txt
• /backup_dir/config_files/pwdfile.txt
• /backup_dir/config_files/certmap.conf
• /backup_dir/config_files/slapd-collations.conf
• /backup_dir/config_files/schema/*

Major configuration options and enablement

These files are automatically archived and do require any special CLI commands/usage

Origin

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2147446

https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/2562

Author

mreynolds@redhat.com