Gerald Waugh wrote: > > All we have to do in case of failure is "migrate" back to our restored > > system. > <snip> > Yea, well how do you get mysql, php, firewall, logcheck, cobalt updates and on > and on installed, sounds like just migrating the sites back is a half-ass job.
Second time today I've been caught with a "too simplistic" answer. My response was to Tim Hockin, a full-time Cobalter; I was sure he knew the limitations of CMU. I just didn't know if he knew people were using it in the field to "migrate" back to the same system after a restore. Not speaking for how others do it, but here's how we do it... Wherever we can, we install products in the userspace of gui-created users. We've found that the RaQ restores such products properly. We've done this with some mailing list solutions and bulletin-board solutions for our clients, and we find they get moved properly. For programs which are NOT stored in userspace we create our own scripts to back them up, and we write our "wrapper" script to run all of these scripts. For Cobalt updates and "pkgmaster" packages, we currently install them manually, usually from our own local storage, after we rebuild the RaQ but before we restore the CMU, but we're studying how to integrate them into our own burns of the Cobalt Restore CDs. We don't put the systems back on the Internet until they've been fully rebuilt, resecured, and restored. Personally I've ALWAYS felt better restoring all system files and programs as if I were doing a new install, not only on Sun Cobalt RaQs, but on generic Linux/Unix as well, and then restoring system-data. As I recall, that's the original purpose of 'local' directories under Linux/Unix. Of course you may do it differently, and I AM willing to learn, even though sometimes I don't seem to be <smile>. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
