Yeah actually I managed to write some script to help in doing that but it's a bit dirty. It would be good to have a cleaner and more precise wait to do it. In puppet dashboard for example it would be nice to have the list of files changed on a specific server with the corresponding date and MD5 checksum. I'll propose that to developpement, seems a good idea. Because once you know the MD5 you're looking for your good with the actual system. We just miss a browsing/finding method.
Thx for you help Felix ! On Dec 22, 7:34 pm, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/22/2010 04:28 AM, Nicolas Aizier wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > I've got several questions that are most probably obvious to some of > > you but I'm actually a bit 'in the fog' about filebucket. > > > backup are done on a md5 basis so 1 file is generated whatever the > > number of clients if it's the same md5. That a really good option. > > On the other hand let's say that after 3 months I need to restore a / > > etc/ntp.conf file for a specific server. How the hell I know the old > > file md5 checksum ? > > I'm actually using puppet dashboard and I'll not open all the reports > > to find the md5 checksum, and as the file might have been taken from > > another server perhaps the checksum didn.t even appear in the server > > reports .... > > > Hope you see my point. From my actual point of view it's a great > > backup tool but restoring seems a bit tricky. But I'm sure someone > > will enlighten my soon since everything is really good in puppet so I > > guess problem come from me as usual ;-) > > Hi, > > those are very good points, actually. If you don't have the logs anymore > (and you probably don't), restoring is indeed tricky. Here's what I do > in that case: > > 1. grep through all /var/lib/puppet/bucket/.../paths files for the > filename in question > 2. sort the resulting subdirs by mtime > 3. find the closest one to my mark > 4. huzzah > > Maybe there are already some wrappers out there for this, but it's a > rare use case for me so I'm content as is. > > ...or maybe I've bein Doing It Wrong until now and someone else can tell > us now. > > Cheers, > Felix -- 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.
