Rebuilding config server. what/how to archive and restore?

Question

Greetings,
I've recently realized that I've gotta either re-jumpstart a server (because the root disk isn't mirrored, and because some other packages didn't get installed), or manually mirror the root disk (using SVM).
What I'm after here is info on what I need to archive, how to do that, and how to restore.
Details on the host: It's my primary master for my MMR setup, and is also the config server for when I set up other DS machines.
I'm guessing that I've got to archive off o=NetscapeRoot, and possibly the config stuff (but not necessarily the suffix, since it should be able to be initialized from one of my other masters, right?)
What tools are best used for this? Once the backup is made and the server is rebuilt, is it as simple as just restoring the archived trees? What tools are used for that?
TIA,
Patrick

Answer 1

I should think:
1) "tar" of everything under $LDAP_SERVER_ROOT, when both admin and ldap server are shutdown, make sure you check its content via "tar tvf ..." that all alias/*.db and all files under "db" are there.
2) db2ldif for both NetscapeRoot and all userRoot(s) when both are down "ideally".
I have a cron job for this "db2ldif_backup.sh" which runs daily at 02:00 when both are "up".
# db2ldif_backup.sh
# Execute these for iPlanet Directory Server
IDS5_PATH=/var/Sun/mps
BASEDN="dc=example,dc=com"
LDIF_FILE=/home/ldap/full_backup.ldif
NETSCAPEROOT_LDIF_FILE=/home/ldap/NetscapeRoot.ldif
if [ -n "`ps -ef | grep 'ns-slapd' | grep -v grep`" ]
then
YYYY=`date +'%Y'`
cd $IDS5_PATH/slapd-`hostname`/ldif
rm -f $YYYY*.ldif
../db2ldif -n UserRoot
cp $YYYY*.ldif $LDIF_FILE
echo "Full user data backup written to $LDIF_FILE"
rm -f $YYYY*.ldif
../db2ldif -n NetscapeRoot
cp $YYYY*.ldif $NETSCAPEROOT_LDIF_FILE
echo "Netscape Config data backup written to $NETSCAPEROOT_LDIF_FILE"
chmod 600 $NETSCAPEROOT_LDIF_FILE
fi
Note: saveconfig and restoreconfig are doing the same for NetscapeRoot.
3) db2bak
Gary