On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:49 PM, William Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 10:36 -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote: >> >> On 03/14/2017 02:19 AM, William Brown wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I wanted to know if there is best practice to backup standalone atomic >> > hosts. I'm running a few in a non-kubernetes setup. Tools like >> > amanda-client won't install with rpm-ostree pkg-add, so I wanted to know >> > if there is some advice here. Should I make a container that is >> > privileged and mounts the host root to expose the backup interface? Or >> > is there a better suggestion. >> >> What version of atomic host are you running? rpm install support has >> got better recently. > > I'm running centos atomic host. > >> >> I just installed amanda-client on my fedora 25 atomic host system. >> Snipped output below: >> >> [root@ip-10-0-8-252 ~]# rpm -q rpm-ostree >> rpm-ostree-2017.2-2.fc25.x86_64 >> [root@ip-10-0-8-252 ~]# rpm-ostree install amanda-client >> Checking out tree 24d4499... done >> >> ... >> Will download: 75 packages (17.3 MB) >> ... >> Overlaying... done >> Writing rpmdb... done >> Writing OSTree commit... done >> Copying /etc changes: 25 modified, 0 removed, 46 added >> Transaction complete; bootconfig swap: yes deployment count change: 1 >> Freed objects: 207.6 kB >> Added: >> amanda-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64 >> amanda-client-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64 >> amanda-libs-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64 >> >> ... >> > > Ahh that's exciting. That's probably a better long term solution that > amanda in a container because it's a "host" service.
I just tried it and the same thing works on centos atomic host. Added: amanda-3.3.3-17.el7.x86_64 amanda-libs-3.3.3-17.el7.x86_64 ... I prefer this layering approach to rolling my own custom trees. I use it to run ovirt guest agent on my atomic vms on ovirt. > > -- > Sincerely, > > William Brown > Software Engineer > Red Hat, Australia/Brisbane >
