Alright, I guess I've never actually looked to see how the configs were stored. I'd assumed, yep I said it, that there was some uber file it was all in. If, however, that changes and the data gets stored somewhere else, say in a database or something, then it might be worth considerring.
I'll look deeper before I post next time. Thanks Corey On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Corey Kovacs wrote: >> Hopefully this is a new question, if not, could someone point me to >> the info? >> >> I'd like to be able to do something on the order of ... >> cobbler system dump --name=sys1 >> cobbler profile dump --all >> >> Which would simply dump the internal info to a file suitable for >> reconstructing a cobbler database. Think of an ldif file for leap. >> This could be as simple as a file containing cobbler commands required >> to recreate all profiles and systems. >> >> If this can be done already in a "cobbler"ish way, how is it done? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Corey >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > What is the use case here? > > For backup purposes, the directories you care about are: > > /var/lib/cobbler > /etc/cobbler > /var/www/cobbler > > (I need to make a Wiki page on this) > > For cloning servers, the answer is "cobbler replicate". > > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ReplicateMaster > > If you want to replicate just specific records between servers, we can't > do that yet, but if you are careful you can just scp specific files from > /var/lib/cobbler/config. If you miss dependencies on other config > files files or data that is not on the other server though, you'll wish > you used cobbler replicate. > > --Michael > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
