Chris,
I rsync the whole thing on production servers all the time. As long
as you are trying to maintain nearly identical servers it works fine.
The fact that you are excluding /home worries me. Are you going to
have different users on the machines? Bad things can happen if
users/groups don't match.
Pete Billson
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Chris Fanning wrote:
Hi,
Not sure why you needed to exclude /dev, generally I include it.
I can't remenber the exact error, but it resulted in a kernel panic.
I think some files are good to copy onto the new base installation,
but less files should be copied onto a production server.
I'm trying to see how to do a quick new install from a master copy,
and then use the master copy to push maintenance updates to production
servers.
new-install.exclude
*****************************
/boot
/vmlinuz
/initrd.img
/lib/modules
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
/etc/mdadm
/etc/rsync
/etc/hostname
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
/etc/ssl
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/run
/var/lock
/mount
/media
/proc
/tmp
/dev
/usr/src
/home
*****************************
push-update.exclude
*****************************
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolve.conf
/etc/dhcpd.conf
/etc/firewall
/etc/network
/etc/passwd*
/etc/shadow*
/etc/group*
/var/spool
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
/boot
/vmlinuz
/initrd.img
/lib/modules
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
/etc/mdadm
/etc/rsync
/etc/hostname
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
/etc/ssl
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/run
/var/lock
/mount
/media
/proc
/tmp
/dev
/usr/src
/home
*****************************
This morning I added ltsp sound to the master server and pushed the
update to a client server. It worked. Following this idea, apt-get
should never be used on the client server.
I do feel however that i'm going to run into problems.
I installed freeNX server on the master server, and pushed the copy to
the client server.
Bad. nxserver had touched many different files and it didn't work.
This adds complexity to the invention (something to avoid).
Any ideas?
Chris.
On 10/26/05, Peter Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good point with ssh, I've added it
Not sure why you needed to exclude /dev, generally I include it.
Pete Billson
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ELB Internet Service, Inc.
Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting
Chris Fanning wrote:
If you have the same keys on the other servers this is a security problem.
You should to generate another keys for each server.
You shoul be interested with ssl too.
Good point.
I also needed to exclude /dev
On 10/26/05, Marcin Kuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter
I saw your exclude file:
http://www.elbnet.com/libsys/files/exclude
/boot
/cdrom
/etc/fstab
/etc/hostname
/etc/lilo.conf
/etc/mtab
/etc/network/interfaces
/etc/rsync
/floppy
/lib/modules
/proc
/tmp
/usr/src
/vmlinuz
I think you forgot one thing:
/etc/ssh directory
If you have the same keys on the other servers this is a security problem.
You should to generate another keys for each server.
You shoul be interested with ssl too.
Regards
Marcin Kuk
On 10/21/05, Peter Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Fanning wrote:
Hi,
I do a base install of the OS on the new server then use rsync to
copy a master copy of my server set up, which I keep on a portable USB
drive.
That sounds like just the sort of thing I'm thinking of.
Of course I exclude a few files - i.e. /boot since the hardware is
usually different, hostname, network interface set up, etc.
Would it be too much to ask you for the list of excludes and includes
to help get me started?
Thanks.
Chris.
Chris,
I included everything, except what is listed in
http://www.elbnet.com/libsys/files/exclude
This is for a debian system.
Pete Billson
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http://www.elbnet.com
ELB Internet Service, Inc.
Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting
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