Disaster Recovery

If you want to back up or restore your Directory Server for disaster recovery purposes, use the following procedures.

To Make a Backup for Disaster Recovery

For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.

1. Make a backup of your database files by using the command dsadm backup or dsconf backup.

   Use the procedure in Binary Backup, and store the backup files in a safe place.

2. Copy the configuration directory instance-path/config to a safe place.
3. Copy the schema directory instance-path/config/schema to a safe place.
4. Copy the alias directory instance-path/alias to a safe place.

To Restore for Disaster Recovery

For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.

Make sure you recover the system on the same hardware configuration. For example, the Solaris SPARC recovery mechanism should be used to restore Directory Server on Solaris SPARC.

1. Install the same version of Directory Server that you had previously on the host.
2. Create a server instance by using the dsadm create command.

   The instance-path must be the same as the original instance. See Creating Suffixes.

3. Restore the configuration directory instance-path /config.
4. Restore the schema directory instance-path/config/schema .
5. Restore the alias directory instance-path/alias .
6. Ensure that the configuration for the restored server is correct.

   For example, the directory structure and plug-in configuration must be the same as on the backed up server.

7. Restore your database files by using the command dsconf restore.

   Use the procedure in Binary Restore.