Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Guide

Understanding Backup and Restore

OpenSSO Enterprise supports the following types of configuration datastores:

Caution –

The procedures in this chapter do not apply to the user datastore.

Embedded configuration datastore: Configuration data is stored on the server local to the instance of OpenSSO Enterprise with an exposed LDAP port. This is the default datastore installed during initial configuration of OpenSSO Enterprise.
Sun Directory Server configuration datastore: Configuration data is stored in an instance of Sun Directory Server, which can be selected and configured during initial configuration of OpenSSO Enterprise.

The backup and restore procedures are dependent on the following:

The OpenSSO Enterprise bits are not corrupted.
The backup and restore procedures described in this document pertain only to the service configuration information stored in the defined configuration datastore. All other product files (including the bootstrap file, debug/log files, and key store files) are in the configuration directory defined during deployment (for example, /opensso) and are NOT in the scope of the these procedures.
All of the restore options provided require the OpenSSO Enterprise web application to be re-configured thus, it is assumed that some configuration parameters will have to be used during the product reconfiguration. As long as the original system-generated configuration file .configParam (created as the result of a successful OpenSSO configuration and located in the configuration directory defined during OpenSSO Enterprise deployment; by default /opensso) is backed up, the information in it can be used to create a configuration file for use as input to the command-line configurator. For more information, see Chapter 5, Configuring OpenSSO Enterprise Using the Command-Line Configurator, in Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Installation and Configuration Guide.
After OpenSSO Enterprise is successfully configured, it is assumed that no OpenDS interface or any other utility is used directly to manipulate the configuration data store.