Of course, after a total machine crash, you will have your backups at hand, but what should you do with it ?
Here is the restoration procedure:
How to restore a Rudder backup.
# First, follow the standard installation procedure, this one assumes you have a working "blank" # Rudder on the machine # Disable Rudder agent rudder agent disable # Stop Rudder services service rudder stop # Drop the OpenLDAP database rm -rf /var/rudder/ldap/openldap-data/alock /var/rudder/ldap/openldap-data/*.bdb /var/rudder/ldap/openldap-data/__db* /var/rudder/ldap/openldap-data/log* # Import your backups # Configuration repository tar -C /var/rudder -zvxf /root/rudder-backup-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz # LDAP backup /opt/rudder/sbin/slapadd -l /root/rudder-backup-XXXXXXXX.ldif # PostgreSQL backup sudo -u postgres psql -d rudder < /root/rudder-backup-XXXXXXXX.sql # or psql -u rudder -d rudder -W < /root/rudder-backup-XXXXXXXX.sql # Enable Rudder agent rudder agent enable # And restart the machine or just Rudder: service rudder restart
