ipa-backup command fails to finish

Environment

• IDM

Issue

When running the ipa-backup command it fails with the following error:

tar: /tmp/tmp16uYtFipa/ipa/files.tar: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Resolution

Use the TMPDIR option to use a use a different directory for the backup process.

# TMPDIR=/path/to/backup/ipa-backup  ipa-backup

Root Cause

There is an issue with /tmp, which is causing the backup to fail.

The backup command should not be using /tmp during the backup process.

This issue is being tracked in This content is not included.ipa-backup fails and looks to be writing to /tmp.

Diagnostic Steps

# ipa-backup
Preparing backup on ipaserver.example.com
Stopping IPA services
Backing up ipaca in EXAMPLE-COM to LDIF
Backing up userRoot in EXAMPLE-COM to LDIF
Backing up EXAMPLE-COM
Backing up files
tar returned non-zero code 2: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
tar: /tmp/tmp16uYtFipa/ipa/files.tar: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The ipa-backup command failed. See /var/log/ipabackup.log for more information

# TMPDIR=/path/to/backup  ipa-backup
Preparing backup on ipaserver.example.com
Stopping IPA services
Backing up ipaca in EXAMPLE-COM to LDIF
Backing up userRoot in EXAMPLE-COM to LDIF
Backing up EXAMPLE-COM
Backing up files
Backed up to /var/lib/ipa/backup/ipa-full-2018-02-05-10-54-04
Starting IPA service
The ipa-backup command was successful

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