Restore a directory server

If your directory server instance fails, you can restore your instance to the most recent backup image.

You can use Configuration Tool or the idsdbestore command to restore directory data and, optionally, configuration settings that were previously backed up. You must stop the directory server before you can restore the database, configuration settings, or both.

For a proxy server, you can restore the configuration settings. For a proxy server, you must run the idsdbrestore command with the -x parameter.

For an instance with a DB2® database, you can restore the database into a database and database instance with the same name that was used for the database backup. For a directory server with a DB2 database, you can restore only if a database is configured for the directory server instance. The idsdbestore command restores the backup database into the currently configured database. The command fails if the backed up database instance and database do not match the configured database instance and database. To restore the database, location of the backed up database and the database that the command is restoring must be the same.

For more information about the idsdbrestore command, see Command Reference.