Anyone?  Stupid question?

On May 5, 3:34 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to automatically configure my nodes with  
> amanda backup client.
>
> What I want to achieve is that the server have an entry created in the  
> /etc/amanda/(Daily|Weekly|Monthly)/disklist.conf file on the server.
>
> The disklist.conf file lists entries like so:
> nodename partition alias {
> a
> bunch
> of
> vars}
>
> anothernodename partition alias {
> a
> bunch
> of
> vars
>
> }
>
> I want that to come from a 'role' class assignment - ie, a webserver has  
> the webserver role and has a backup template.
>
> I was hoping to use a define like so:
> define amanda::client::takebackup ($type, $period, $compress = undef) {
> # take the hostname from the name var.
> $myhost = $name
>
> @@file { "/etc/amanda/$period/disklist.conf":
> ensure => present,
> owner => "amandabackup",
> group => "disk",
> mode => 0600,
> content => template("amanda/$period/$type.erb"),
> tag => amandabackupdisklist,
>
> }
> } #end define
>
> And activate the resource like so:
> devel_buildserver.pp:
> class roles::devel_buildserver {
> include amanda::client
> amanada::client::takebackup { $fqdn:
> type => "dev_build",
> period => "Daily",
> compress => false,
>
> }
> } #end class
>
> The erb is like so:
> dev_build.erb:
> # This is a puppet controlled disklist file for dev_build
> <%= myhost %> "/" "/" {
> zmc_unix_base
> encrypt none
> <% if has_variable?("compress") then -%>
> compress client best
> <% else -%>
> compress none
> <% end -%>
> estimate calcsize server
> property "zmc_type" "unix"
> property "zmc_disklist" "Daily"
> property "zmc_version" "3"
> property "zmc_extended_attributes" "gtar"
> property "zmc_amanda_app" "gtar"
> property "zmc_show_advanced" "on"
> property "creation_time" "2011-04-19 23:38:01"
> property "zmc_occ" "33438030906"
> property "last_modified_time" "2011-04-20 18:56:43"
> exclude "/proc,/srv,/sys"
> property "zmc_amcheck_date" "20110420185643"
> zmc_gtar_app
>
> }
>
> Then in the server class I wanted to realize the resource like so:
> class amanda::server {
> ...
> some other stuff
> ...
> File <<| tag == 'amandabackupdisklist' |>>
>
> }
>
> This is not working. The file is not being realized on the server node. I  
> don't think the way I've gone about it will ever work though the way I  
> first thought - hence this call for help... :)
>
> How can I get this to work? What has got me especially worried is the  
> appending of node data to the disklist.conf file - how to do that?
>
> Cheers,
> Den

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