[keycloak-user] Backup of config and users

[Stian Thorgersen]

I agree it would be good to have a section on this in the docs. Feel free
to create a JIRA.

Maybe we could consider improving import/export to json, but I feel we'll
never be able to compete with db specific tools.

On 1 Nov 2017 9:30 am, "Knurr, Michael" <Michael.Knurr at adesso.ch> wrote:

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> Well, I don’t know, using db tools is certainly more efficient. There are
> probably a number of ways to backup the keycloak data. However, looking at
> it from a „product perspective“ I think that keycloak needs to have a
> builtin method to backup and restore its own data.
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> When you are running keycloak in a production environment you need to have
> a recommended and supported way of creating and restoring your backups.
> Most certainly there are alredy a number of companies which already have
> these procedures in place.
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> Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write them down and add them to a „backup
> and restore“ Chapter in the keycloak documentation? What do you think?
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> *Von:* Stian Thorgersen [mailto:sthorger at redhat.com]
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 1. November 2017 06:58
> *An:* Knurr, Michael <Michael.Knurr at adesso.ch>
> *Cc:* Sebastien Blanc <sblanc at redhat.com>; keycloak-user <
> keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [keycloak-user] Backup of config and users
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> Wouldn't it be better and more efficient to use dB tools for backing up
> the dB?
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> On 30 Oct 2017 8:27 am, "Knurr, Michael" <Michael.Knurr at adesso.ch> wrote:
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> Dear Sebastien
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> thanks for your response. This seems to be an easy solution.
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> Having an automatted process in mind, is there any way to know when I can
> stop the instance again "once the export is done"?
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Sebastien Blanc [mailto:sblanc at redhat.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Oktober 2017 10:50
> An: Knurr, Michael <Michael.Knurr at adesso.ch>
> Cc: keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
> Betreff: Re: [keycloak-user] Backup of config and users
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> You can just run another instance on a different port (i.e : with
> -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=) with the export args , then you can
> safely stop this instance once the export is done.
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> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Knurr, Michael <Michael.Knurr at adesso.ch>
> wrote:
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> > In the documentation I can see that the whole domain configuration and
> > all user information can be exported by the "startup" export
> functionality.
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> > http://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/topics/export-import.
> > html
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> > Unfortunately this method requires us to stop the server to do the
> export.
> > What is the recommended procedure to export domain configuration and
> > users in an actively running keycloak instance?
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