[Cialug] Most reliable backup solution

[Matthew Nuzum]

Yeah, that's a good idea. For me, there are two things stopping me:

I think that both Chef and Puppet are boring. I try to read the docs and
tutorials and my eyes glaze over (I'm open to suggestions that are short
and practical).

I should have mentioned in the original post that it'd be great to find
something that scales up to the desktop as well, though I guess your
suggestions work there too, though that takes some fun out of the Software
Center.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Kenneth Younger <kyounger at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about building servers completely with Puppet/Chef/other CM tool? If
> you build the scripts well enough originally, then you can generally remove
> ongoing dealings with that list other than #2. Also, it can help with
> scaling (if and when you need it). I used to think CM was just for
> people/orgs that needed to provision 100's of servers and complex
> infrastructure, when I started viewing it as a way to manage infrastructure
> entirely with code (DRY, version control!, etc), it started to make more
> sense even on a single server system.
>
> Which is why I've been studying up on Puppet recently. But I'm not saying
> Puppet is better than Chef or any of the others, it's just what I picked,
> and I may change in the future. (CM tool decisions are the new vi/emacs
> flame wars topics it seems...)
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> > Most of the backup solutions I've used involved rsync and a remote file
> > store. The restore process looks like this:
> >
> >   1a. Install OS and updates
> >   1b. Install required packages (hopefully I get them all)
> >   1c. Configure software (by restoring /etc)
> >   2. Restore data
> >   3. Restart services and we're live
> >
> > The effort to do steps 1a - 1c are pretty laborious. In the case of a web
> > server, it takes far longer than restoring the data.
> >
> > I've used time-machine for Mac OS and it works pretty slick. If you
> > experience a failure or data loss, you boot off of the installation
> media,
> > at the installation screen choose to restore from backup, choose the
> backup
> > location and it restores the OS, the Apps and your data in one swoop.
> >
> > I was wondering last night if there is a better way to do my server
> backup
> > than what I'm using. I know about CrashPlan, but essentially, it is still
> > going to be the same steps above, if I understand correctly.
> >
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