Make a complete backup of Domain

[firegs]

Hey guys, running into a snag.

I've been running Zentyal for 6 months on a XenServer Vm without issue, but we're moving away from Xen and going to be using Proxmox.

All of the ways to migrate from Xen to Proxmox dont seem to be working for me.

1) Is there a danger in just scrapping the Zentyal Domain Controller Vm as it is, start fresh on another VM, reconfigure it the same way (or use the Zentyal Restore Config option)?
2) Will it still be considered the same domain?
3) Will I have to rejoin every machine to the *new* domain and transfer user profiles?
4) Is there any way sure fire way to move the domain from one Domain Controller to another without having to rejoin everyone?

Halp!

[firegs]

I'm trying to use dd first. I'll report back.

[firegs]

So, using DD, Zentyal booted up fine. Did a fast disk check automatically, but when I got into the Admin interface, there was NO configuration except for users. Not good.

[christian]

indeed, not good 

Reason is potentially because users are stored in LDAP while configuration is stored in SQL DB (and I don't know how Redis is used  although I don't think it has any impact)

did you stop all Zentyal services including DB server before copying ? (dd)

[firegs]

I did not. Could not. Its a running PDC for an active network. Trying to figure out how to do this with the least amount of downtime and reconfiguration.. Gahh..

[christian]

If I read correctly, DB backup is part of 3.2 roadmap...

[firegs]

Oy..

So at this point, I really dont think this is possible without a new domain. And that means the MAXIMUM amount of downtime.. kill me now.