Chris O'Regan wrote:
>> If I was maintaining a disaster recovery setup, I'd just use "cobbler 
>> replicate" between the two servers on cron, or if they are supposed to 
>> always be in sync (and cron is unacceptable) and there isn't a reliable 
>> concept of a master, possibly set up cobbler triggers to rsync 
>> /var/lib/cobbler/config to the other server whenever something changes 
>> on one of them.
>>     
>
> Interesting, I did not notice that on the wiki when I was hunting for 
> information this afternoon. 

Thanks for the heads up! I'll put it up there.


> Yeah, this sounds like what I want. Is this 
> a push or a pull? 

It's a pull.

> I gather that "cobbler replicate" is run on each 
> subcobbler (pull), right? 

Correct. Subcobblers can have subcobblers if you so wish :)

> Hrmm...my "ks_mirror" directory on my dev box 
> is pretty much empty (just a "config" directory). Am I missing 
> something? What should be in there?
>   

That's the directory used by "cobbler import", if you were sourcing 
trees externally (without mirroring them) this data would not be in use.

> Is this going to replicate my kickstarts and snippets, too, or do I have 
> to find a way of sharing them? If the latter, can those be put onto NFS 
> safely? What mechanism is used for replication?
>   

Yes, it can help move over as little or as much as you want. See 
"cobbler replicate --help"in 1.2.4. If it can't do something you want, 
let me know, and we can see about adding it.

Replication is achieved using Cobbler XMLRPC for basic data, and files 
are transferred using scp/rsync. Usage of ssh-agent before cobbler 
replicate is therefore recommended unless you are using authorized_keys.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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