Re: Disaster recovery, network based tape storage

[David Aquilina <dwaquilina gmail com>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:41:01 -0700 (PDT), shane stixrud org
<shane stixrud org> wrote:
> But everything else really should be solved
> using an automated installation / configuration engine like kickstart. My
> main complaints with this approach is that kickstarts %prep and %post
> sections require the user to pick their scripting/programming lang of
> choice and design a unique script per server, I would prefer a more
> structured approach.  The other issue I have is determining exactly what
> updates were applied on the old server, it would be nice if I could kick
> off a up2date --restore at the end of my %post, even better would be for
> RHN to maintain and install .rpmsaves config files for all rpm packages :)

I don't want to sound like a salesdroid (because I'm not, I'm a well
written perl script doing support ;) ) but a lot of that sounds like
the RHN Provisioning module. Of course, to get that you'll need to
fork over some extra money, but I hear it works decently well.

-- 
David Aquilina, RHCE
dwaquilina gmail com