Note: this component is designated "advanced", which means that objects of this type are not expected to be created or altered in most environments. If you believe that such a change is necessary, you may want to contact support in order to understand the potential impact of that change.
The Backup Backend provides read-only access to the set of backups that are available for the Directory Server.
It is provided as a convenience feature that makes it easier to determine what backups are available to be restored if necessary.
The Backup Backend component inherits from the Backend
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| General Configuration Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
|---|---|
| description | backend-id |
| enabled | base-dn |
| writability-mode | |
| set-degraded-alert-when-disabled | |
| return-unavailable-when-disabled | |
| notification-manager | |
| Backup Configuration Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
| backup-directory | None |
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | A description for this Backend |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Indicates whether the backend is enabled in the server. If a backend is not enabled, then its contents are not accessible when processing operations. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Backup Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the path to a backup directory containing one or more backups for a particular backend. This is a multivalued property. Each value may specify a different backup directory if desired (one for each backend for which backups are taken). Values may be either absolute paths or paths that are relative to the base of the Directory Server installation. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A filesystem path |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
backend-id (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies a name to identify the associated backend. The name must be unique among all backends in the server. The backend ID may not be altered after the backend is created in the server. |
| Default Value | backup |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
base-dn (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the base DN(s) for the data that the backend handles. A single backend may be responsible for one or more base DNs. Note that no two backends may have the same base DN although one backend may have a base DN that is below a base DN provided by another backend (similar to the use of sub-suffixes in the Sun Java System Directory Server). If any of the base DNs is subordinate to a base DN for another backend, then all base DNs for that backend must be subordinate to that same base DN. |
| Default Value | cn=backups |
| Allowed Values | A valid DN. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | No administrative action is required by default although some action may be required on a per-backend basis before the new base DN may be used.
Although it is currently supported, the use of multiple base DNs per backend is not recommended and this capability may be removed in the future. If you are considering the use of multiple base DNs in a backend, you should first contact Ping Identity support to discuss this configuration |
writability-mode (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the behavior that the backend should use when processing write operations. |
| Default Value | disabled |
| Allowed Values | enabled - Allows write operations to be performed in that backend (if the requested operation is valid, the user has permission to perform the operation, the backend supports that type of write operation, and the global writability-mode property is also enabled). disabled - Causes all write attempts to fail. internal-only - Causes external write attempts to fail but allows writes by replication and internal operations. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
set-degraded-alert-when-disabled (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Determines whether the Directory Server enters a DEGRADED state (and sends a corresponding alert) when this Backend is disabled. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
return-unavailable-when-disabled (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Determines whether any LDAP operation that would use this Backend is to return UNAVAILABLE when this Backend is disabled. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
notification-manager (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies a notification manager for changes resulting from operations processed through this Backend |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Notification Manager. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
To list the configured Backends:
dsconfig list-backends
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To view the configuration for an existing Backend:
dsconfig get-backend-prop
--backend-name {name}
[--tab-delimited]
[--script-friendly]
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To update the configuration for an existing Backend:
dsconfig set-backend-prop
--backend-name {name}
(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
[(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...