Re: [tlug] etckeeper

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

Le mardi 8 décembre 2009, Christian Horn a écrit :
> If this works better now with git one could even think of
> doing backups with this: a central server regularly collecting
> the changes and serving for restore.
> The changes done on the servers nicely available via git.
Git works well managing /etc, but i'm not sure etckeeper would help as it says 
it autocommits changes: With rpms any change introduced by a package 
overriting a previously modified file ends up with the new version put in 
a .rpmnew, waiting for user to merge them.

> Someone working with a pure remote-config system?
> The concept of managing a server purely by puppet could also
> help to reconstruct how all files looked like at any point
> in time.
Benefits of having a version control is that, on the target host, you'll 
always have a local database containing previous and current version. 
Automated checkout could help recover a system that is no longer remotely 
available.

Francois.