On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Chris O'Connell <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Agreed, bare metal restore is a must. > > > > > I'm curious since bare metal restores have been mentioned what is > everyone's > thoughts on using a pxe boot image to pre-seed or kickstart the server. > Then use puppet or chef to bring the server to a known configuration. This > makes dealing with production vs testing environments much easier too as > it's simple to insure that they are identical and repeatable. > > This approach also avoids any issues where a server was just discovered to > have been hacked but when it was hacked is unclear. Rather than spending > time trying to find your last clean image you can just fire up a clean > install quickly and consistently. > -- > David > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > pxe booting has been my approach. I use Cobbler for pxe with Puppet for configuration. Currently the only thing I backup is cobbler, puppet and data (custom code or databases). From those 3 things I can restore any machine. By using this approach it also makes it easy to scale horizontally since adding a new server means just adding it to a pre-defined group, which then tells it to load specific configurations and data. -matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
