I misplace the unseal keys for my vault production deployment. I am not worried about the secrets its holding but need a new vault established on the same machine. I tried doing it by both installing and compiling it from source but no luck as it says * Vault is already initialized.
What is the best way to get a new vault on the same machine (i am using a VM) ? Also curious how VAULT is designed and is it per machine basis ?
narayan8291
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In order to reinitialize vault you will need to remove the backend storage. How you do it depends on which backend you are using. For instance, if it is the file backend, remove the entire specified path; if it is consul, do a recursive delete on the entire prefix. Alternately, point the path/prefix to a different location.
jefferai
on 11 Dec 2015
Thanks.
narayan8291
on 11 Dec 2015
Sure.
jefferai
on 11 Dec 2015
deleting the "file" backend worked, I also had to stop and start vault service, then re-init worked
perfecto25
on 16 Mar 2017
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In order to reinitialize vault you will need to remove the backend storage. How you do it depends on which backend you are using. For instance, if it is the
filebackend, remove the entire specified path; if it isconsul, do a recursive delete on the entire prefix. Alternately, point the path/prefix to a different location.