"cobbler reposync" does exactly this.

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Replication




On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, jehan procaccia wrote:

> unfortunatly, there's no clean and secure way to upgrade (yum) from centos 5 
> to 6, cf
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32089
> everywhere on centos site I see that the only clean way is to reinstall a 
> centos6 from scratch
> I've got ~400Go of distribs+repos and hundreds of systems recorded on my 
> centos5.7 cobbler broken installation,  
> moving all that to a new cobbler system on centos6 from scratch will be a 
> long journey
> is there a way to "export" the cobbler "database" (systems, profiles ...) and 
> in parallel moving distrib and repo directories with a simple cp/rsync so 
> that I get all my current cobbler object on a fresh installed centos6 ?
>  
> Otherwise, can I downgrade from rpm 2.3.1 to 2.2.1 in order to make my 
> cobbler production server to run again ?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Le 11/01/2012 21:52, Jörgen Maas a écrit :  
> > Yes, I had this issue too. The problem is in python.. It's a known issue. I 
> > fixed it by upgrading to centos6...  
> > Op 11 jan. 2012 18:23 schreef "jehan procaccia" 
> > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> 
> > het volgende:
> > >
> > > OK, I upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3.1 however now cobblerd doesn't start 
> > > anymore :-(  
> > >
> > > [root@cobbler ~]# /etc/init.d/cobblerd start
> > > Starting cobbler daemon: No module named ctypes
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
> > >     api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 127, in 
> > > __init__
> > >     module_loader.load_modules()
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py", line 
> > > 62, in load_modules
> > >     blip =  __import__("modules.%s" % ( modname), globals(), locals(), 
> > > [modname])
> > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/modules/authn_pam.py", 
> > > line 53, in ?
> > >     from ctypes import CDLL, POINTER, Structure, CFUNCTYPE, cast, 
> > > pointer, sizeof
> > > ImportError: No module named ctypes
> > >
> > > Any idea of what could be wrong ?
> > > you told me to check potential .rpmnew files, there are 2 in /etc/cobbler:
> > >
> > > [root@cobbler cobbler]# ls -ltra /etc/cobbler/*.rpmnew
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17205 Jan 11 16:10 /etc/cobbler/settings.rpmnew
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3266 Jan 11 16:10 /etc/cobbler/modules.conf.rpmnew
> > >
> > > could this be related ?  
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
> > > Le 11/01/2012 16:44, Michael DeHaan a écrit :
> > >>
> > >> File system info --
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information
> > >>
> > >> You should be fine.    Backing up /var/lib/cobbler is smart though, and 
> > >> pay attention to any .rpmnew files created.
> > >>
> > >> --Michael
> > >>
> > >> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, jehan procaccia wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> OK, I got the latest source and made the rpms
> > >>> # ls
> > >>> cobbler-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm      koan-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm
> > >>> cobbler-web-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm
> > >>>
> > >>> My cobbler installation is running on a centos5.7 system
> > >>> # rpm -qa | grep -i cobbler
> > >>> cobbler-web-2.2.1-1.el5
> > >>> cobbler-2.2.1-1.el5
> > >>>
> > >>> can I blindly upgrade those packages with the 2.3.1, or should I do 
> > >>> something before ?
> > >>> where is the cobbler "database", config files , settings that I should 
> > >>> care about before upgrade ?
> > >>> is there an upgrade page recommendation ? I found that related:
> > >>> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Relocating%20Your%20Install
> > >>> but I'am afraid of bracking our installation by upgrading with a simple 
> > >>> yum localinstall cobbler*2.3.1*, should I ?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.  
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Le 10/01/2012 16:22, Jörgen Maas a écrit :
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:51 PM, jehan procaccia 
> > >>>> <[email protected] 
> > >>>> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> In the tread it is mentioned that it should be corrected in 2.3.1  
> > >>>>> where can I get 2.3.1 !? and a SRPMS so that I can recompile to the 
> > >>>>> latest release ?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 2.3.1 is the current development version, you can get it by pulling 
> > >>>> the source with git and run 'make rpms'
> > >>>>
> > >>>> HTH
> > >>>> --  
> > >>>> Grtz,
> > >>>> Jörgen Maas
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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