I'm very new at puppet, but I've almost managed to get to the point where my puppet server sets up all the basics of a new linux box for me. The last piece of the puzzle is backups.
The way I do backups is fairly simplistic. I just use mysqldump and tar to create local backup files and then scp them to a central host once a day. In order to set this up, I have to create a key on the new linux server and then move that key to the central backup server. the way I do this by hand looks like this: # create the key mkdir /etc/backups chmod 500 /etc/backups ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/backups/$HOSTNAME -q -N "" # copy the public key up to the server: scp -i /etc/backups/$HOSTNAME /etc/backups/$HOSTNAME.pub [email protected]:/c/vshell/publickey/user The directory looks strange because it's a windows server running the VShell sshd program. That last line, when run the first time, does two things that I'm having trouble scripting into puppet: 1) it adds the ssh fingerprint of the backup server to /root/.ssh/ knownhosts 2) it prompts me for the password for the "user" account on the backup server, and then copies the public key for this new server up to the backup server. After I've answered both of these prompts once, I'm able to run scp sessions to the backup server without intervention. Has this problem been solved elsewhere? I've done some searching but come up empty. Is there a better way I should be doing it? Thanks in advance. Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
