Restoring Data - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - COMMAND-LINE Manual

Restoring Data

Restoring Data
The purpose of creating back up archives, of course, is to allow you to restore a
previous state of the CMS server instance after a hardware or software failure
corrupts your current state. The restore tool allows you to recover all or part of the
configuration that was backed up. For example, you can use the tool to restore just
the internal database of a CMS server instance.
A special case, automatic restore, allows you to completely restore the
configuration from the latest backup archive quickly and without interaction.
70 Netscape Certificate Management System Command-Line Tools Guide • February 2003
Import the EMAIL Signing user certificate and corresponding key from the
PKCS #12 file specified in "Signing Backup Data Using cmsutil," on page
67 into this
cert8.db
command:
pk12util -i <PKCS #12 file> -d .
Execute the following command:
cd /var/tmp
Execute the following command:
certutil -d <server_root>alias -L
EMAIL Signing user certificate
Verify the CMS backup data file signature by executing the following
command:
cmsutil -D -c /var/tmp/<CMS backup data file> -n -h 1 -i
/var/tmp/<CMS backup data file signature file> -d
<server_root>/alias
where the CMS backup data file signature file is of the form
CMS_<instance_name_minus_cert-_prefix>_BACKUP-<YYYYMMDDhhmmss
>.signature
and respectfully by executing the following
key3.db
to obtain the nickname of the