#7632 [RFE] Allow IPA Services to Start After the IPA Backup Has Completed
Closed: fixed Opened by frenaud.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla: Bug 1562422

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1. Proposed title of this feature request
Allow IPA Services to Start After the IPA Backup Has Completed
2. Who is the customer behind the request?
3. What is the nature and description of the request?
Refactor the ipa-backup script so that it restarts the IPA serivces before it
starts to compress the resulting backup
4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
It would  save over 4 minutes of the IPA downtime and I suspect this is just
going to keep increasing as the data increase
5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional
requirements here)
Modify the backup script and change the steps
6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer
can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.
Be able to run a backup and have the services start backup before the backup is
compressed.
7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat Bugzilla?
No
8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release
would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?
No
9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional
input?
No
10. List any affected packages or components.
IPA
11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if
implemented?
Yes

Metadata Update from @frenaud:
- Custom field rhbz adjusted to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1562422

Metadata Update from @frenaud:
- Issue assigned to frenaud

Metadata Update from @frenaud:
- Custom field on_review adjusted to https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/2492

master:

  • 4de5ea0930d6a9697668568b0b87a868e5cae285 ipa-backup: restart services before compressing the backup
  • fa559808d7158a7de0f21446567c2961b27a1f19 ipatest: add functional test for ipa-backup

ipa-4-7:

  • 75cb16f1e778681058be5763cff4507996d85166 ipa-backup: restart services before compressing the backup
  • cec39f52616cdfad4b4467a8174dd47f481e08c6 ipatest: add functional test for ipa-backup

Metadata Update from @cheimes:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

ipa-4-6:

  • 3973f8a9db3b50846ea6eb644cb00a84ef36d80f ipa-backup: restart services before compressing the backup
  • 21639d75b7161c65f194b6343a2ea06395dc418e ipatest: add functional test for ipa-backup
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