Hello all, I'm a new rdiff-backup user and new to this list so please excuse any incoherency.
I'm working with X terminal servers. These servers require a lot of fine tuning because they provide the enduser's desktop. For example, you have to preconfigure user accounts so that the correct email client opens when they click on a mailto link in a web page. The list is endless. And then I was put onto rsync. I work with debian testing. With rdiff-backup I have successfully copied a configured server (master server) and dumped the whole lot onto a fresh install (client server). exluding some directories and files like /boot /dev /lib/modules. It worked. I then made some modifications to the master server and pushed the update onto the client server but this time excluding even more directories and files like /home and /etc/passwd* (I didn't want to start overwriting local user configurations). It worked. So I continued and installed freenx on the master server and pushed it onto the client server. It didn't work because freenx touched /etc/passwd and I had excluded it. I'd like to ask the list if you think I'm going about this the right way. Is there some sort of rdiff-backup model (or other) that can push updates out onto client servers without overwriting local configurations? Thanks. Chris. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
