Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
> Looking. Rocky was supposed to release something at the beginning of the > month, but I haven't seen anything. The release was postponed by one month. "Unfortunately we’ve had to revise our previous update for a release candidate from March 31 to April 30, due to complications in the build

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
Hi Simon, +1 I expect that to happen sooner or later. Currently Alma has a head start with Rocky postponed until the end of April, but to me the race is still open. As is the case with many other colleagues, I'm currently stuck with RHEL clones because RHEL/CentOS is what my customers are

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
Hi Mark, > Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see from > over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released. yup. So far I upgraded a couple of test machines using the conversion tool they provided on GitHub (works fine, although it seems each

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-04-01 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
> All relevant logging is centralised to a server cluster running Graylog. ... and, because I forgot to mention it: Yes, that server cluster has a "persistent data" device. Regards, Peter. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-04-01 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
Hi Simon, > Whenever I read such things I'm wondering, what about things like log > files? Do you call them OS files or persistent data? How do you back'em up > then? I don't. All relevant logging is centralised to a server cluster running Graylog. Regards, Peter.

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-04-01 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
Hi Niki, I'm using a similar approach like Stephen's, but with a kink. * Kickstart all machines from a couple of ISOs, depending on the requirements (the Kickstart process is controlled by Ansible) * Machines that have persistent data (which make up about 50% in average) have at least two