[rancid] Back-up procedures

[Fox, Brad]

Hello all,



Just out curiosity when I look to back-up my rancid directories are
there any special considerations I should be concerned about? I have
attempted to look on-line for procedures to back-up Rancid but all I can
seem to find are the tutorials for backing up network equipment. What I
am looking to do is to back-up the rancid system in-case of hardware or
software failure. Thank you in advance for your help.







Brad

[john heasley]

Post by Fox, Brad
Hello all,
Just out curiosity when I look to back-up my rancid directories are
there any special considerations I should be concerned about? I have
attempted to look on-line for procedures to back-up Rancid but all I can
seem to find are the tutorials for backing up network equipment. What I
am looking to do is to back-up the rancid system in-case of hardware or
software failure. Thank you in advance for your help.

In theory, disk/fsys dumps are all you need. the caveat is that I think
they'd need to be done in silent state. That is, I do not know what
might occur if the CVS repository were updated at the same time that
dumps were run. The repository file changes, rather than being updated,
so it may be in an inconsistent state when hits tape.

[Todd Heide]

What I have done in the past is tarball the directory after it has
completed its run. I have been able to fully restore it on another
machine with some minor tweaking to rancid and Viewvc.



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Subject: [rancid] Back-up procedures



Hello all,



Just out curiosity when I look to back-up my rancid directories are
there any special considerations I should be concerned about? I have
attempted to look on-line for procedures to back-up Rancid but all I can
seem to find are the tutorials for backing up network equipment. What I
am looking to do is to back-up the rancid system in-case of hardware or
software failure. Thank you in advance for your help.







Brad