disaster recovery of nis master server

[Doggy]

Hi,
I'm in the process of practicing a disaster recovery of the nis master
server.
I will build the new server with the same specs as the original nis
master server. I have created dumps of the original server which I
will use to create the new master server.

Once I import the dump to the new master server and reboot, will that
cause any problems with the existing master nis server still in
production, or does anybody know of a better way to do this?

doggy

[Richard L. Hamilton]

In article <18239c3a.0307310840.10449247@posting.google.com >,
[email]tru64dog@yahoo.com[/email] (Doggy) writes:

> Hi,
> I'm in the process of practicing a disaster recovery of the nis master
> server.
> I will build the new server with the same specs as the original nis
> master server. I have created dumps of the original server which I
> will use to create the new master server.
>
> Once I import the dump to the new master server and reboot, will that
> cause any problems with the existing master nis server still in
> production, or does anybody know of a better way to do this?

Uh, how about pulling the network cable off right before you reboot?
(assuming it has the same IP address as the real master server)

If it has a different IP, as long as all the clients bind by explicitly
naming the NIS server(s) in /var/yp/binding/`domainname`/ypservers
and not by broadcast, I'm not sure that it would matter, although I'm
also not sure I'd want a test system on the network if it didn't have to
be.

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