On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:32:44AM -0700, Patrick wrote: > > You forgot a biggy bonus of puppet, no matter what size you support. I > > have several small ( as in 1-3) groups of very different machines, > > and with puppet I can rebuild them very quickly on when they need to > > be replaced or upgraded. doing it by hand takes most of a day or 2. > > > > +1 to this. Almost all the computers I manage have pretty simple > configurations, but it's nice to know that with 4 commands I can wipe > everything and bring it back to a known state. I use a > tftpinstall+preseeding for ubuntu. Then puppet finishes the job. My usecase > is probably different from yours because most of my machines don't have data > that needs to be saved on them.
If you want to keep your data (as we do), put it on a separate partition (all our data is in /srv, and that's on a separate partition), then make sure your preseed doesn't nuke that partition. Keep backups in case you need to restore it. We can restore a host in about 25 minutes if we care to do it quickly. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca w: http://feds.ca/ "To Serve, Empower, and Represent the Undergraduate Students of the University of Waterloo" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
