On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:32:02AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > > > > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > > > > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine > > > > quickly > > > > in case of hardware problems. And we even have the solution inside > > > > Debian: > > > > > > > > FAI > > > > > > > > Why not setting up important machines with FAI? > > > > > > Because that's not the solution. > > > > > > Installing a machine with Debian is not the problem. > > > > > > Installing and/or recreating the services on them is. > > > This requires manual work, either during the recreation > > > phase or during the development. > > > > That's not true. If you can script it, FAI can do it. It just becomes a > > post-installation task. Using packages.d.o as an example, it's just going to > > be a predominantly an Apache configuration and some scripts, right? So you > > restore the scripts from backup, and dump the Apache config into the > > appropriate directory, all from within FAI. > > ... and adding users > ... and adding groups > ... and permissions > ... fixing/checking paths > ... and adding links > ... and initialising > ... and fixing scripts > ... and fixing the installation > ... and adding more permissions > ... and monitoring the initialisation
All doable. > Feel free to package package.debian.org, or qa.debian.org, or > planet.debian.org, or $whatever for/with FAI. Then come back. I'm certainly up for the challenge. I may need to hit you up for information that isn't obvious. > > FAI can be a total disaster recovery solution when you couple it with your > > backups, however I will freely admit that it takes a lot of time (and > > testing) to get it such that you can punch out an identical box, > > sausage-machine style. Then of course you need to keep it up to date as > > well. > > Feel free to do so. > I'll have a go... regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
