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The only problem with this approach is that the packages won't contain any |
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custom configurations (/etc/). This of course could easily be accounted for |
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and backed up in a different manner. |
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David |
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On 12/1/05, Robert Larson <robert@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:59 pm, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> > We have servers (some Gentoo, some FreeBSD, etc) and we are currently |
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> > using something called flexbackup to make backups that get pulled to a |
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> > central storage server. flexbackup uses dump so it works at the |
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> partition |
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> > level to make backups. |
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> > |
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> > My problem is this: flexbackup cannot be used to backup *part* of a |
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> > filesystem - for example, it makes no sense to backup /usr/portage when |
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> > making a backup of /usr. |
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> > Im wondering if anyone has written a script (or maybe there's a tool to |
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> do |
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> > this) that will make binary packages of everything installed on a server |
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> > which can then be used to perform very quick restores in the event of a |
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> > major failure? |
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> If I understand you correctly, then this may help: |
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> # obtain a list of installed packages |
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> emerge -vep world | grep ^'\[ebuild ' | while read a; do |
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> # extract the package name |
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> pkg=$(echo $a | cut -d']' -f2 | awk '{print $1}') |
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> # build a binary of the package |
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> quickpkg "/var/db/pkg/${pkg}" |
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> done |
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> This should create binary packages of everything installed on your system |
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> (be |
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> warned that I have not tested this though). |
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> As well, it may help to have: |
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> FEATURES="buildpkg" |
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> in your make.conf. This way anytime a package is installed it will make a |
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> binary. |
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> If you keep a backup of your /var/lib/portage/world file, it seems to me |
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> like |
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> you should be able to script installing all of the binaries on a new host. |
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> I should also mention that gentoo catalyst may be worth looking into on |
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> the |
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> off chance that it may provide you with a solution. You could build your |
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> very own stage and boot/rescue disk. Here is a link to the project site: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ |
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> HTH, |
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> Robert |
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> -- |
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