[wellylug] Redhat Presentation

[Mark Signal]

re disk cloning - have you looked at mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

I rescue iso of your default setup works well for cloning


cheers

Mark

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Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:34 a.m.
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Well, I was exaggerating for effect. At the time that RH announced the
change I had only a handful of machines to look after, and they were
pretty easy to handle manually. It was STILL going to be a major pain
if they were going to be migrated to RHE, and it is still true that
they couldn't tell me how much it would costs me.

Nowadays I use Debian and apt-proxy, but I'll look into cfengine,
thanks. I'm looking for a Linux cloning tool.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:52:56 -0700, you wrote:

>Why don't you just use cfengine and do it yourself?  That's what we
>did at transmeta... (when I worked there, that is!) I can't tell you
>HOW it was all done, but once an update was verified, we pushed it out
>overnight using cfengine.  Worked for linux and solaris.  Of course,
>when I say "we" I mean the Mid- and Senior-Admins. ;)
>
>It was pretty funny actually... RH 7.3 was out and we were still
>running RH61 with just about everything updated to current.
>
>Of course, you could've used debian, too, but their support isn't
>corporately provided like RH's is/was...  Another option you have is
>to look to Progeny for continued up2date service...
>
>--Ian...
>
>> Picture this. You have 30 - 40 servers all running RH. You paid your
>> subs for the up2date service. Suddenly RH announce that the service is
>> being withdrawn and that you have to upgrade to a more expensive
>> version, for little improvement in services. They can't tell you what
>> it will cost you, in spite of many emails, just that it will be LOTS
>> more than you are paying at present.
>> Not only have they blown the budget, they have involved you in LOTS of
>> work, for little advantage...


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