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On 10/01/2015 21:40, Tomas Mozes wrote: |
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> Ansible is a not a backup solution. You don't need to download your /etc |
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> from the machines because you deploy your /etc to machines via ansible. |
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> I was also thinking about putting /etc in git and then deploying it but: |
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> - on updates, will you update all configurations in all /etc repos? |
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> - do you really want to keep all the information in git, is it necessary? |
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The set of fileS in /etc/ managed by ansible is always a strict subset |
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of everything in /etc |
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For that reason alone, it's a good idea to back up /etc anyway, |
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regardless of having a CM system in place. The smallest benefit is |
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knowing when things changed, by the cm SYSTEM or otherwise |
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Alan McKinnon |
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