[Spacewalk-list] How to backup spacewalk?

[Mike McCune]

On 09/13/2009 10:50 AM, Milan Zazrivec wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 05:20:00 Kevin Arhelger wrote:
>> After having to rebuild my spacewalk install from scratch after a disk
>> failure I was wondering what the proper way to backup spacewalk was. I
>> am currently using backuppc so I was wondering what I would need to
>> backup to perform a successful restore.
>>
>>   - Oracle needs to be backed
>>   - /var/satellite contains all the pushed packages
>>   - /var/lib/cobbler all the cobbler configuration.
>> - /etc
>>
>> My restore plan would be to reinstall all the rpms to get the same
>> system state. Then I would restore the oracle db and restore
>> /var/satellite and /var/lib/cobbler and /etc/
>>

>> Are there any other steps I am missing with this backup plan?
>
> /root/ssl-build with the package containing your SSL certificate
> and home directory for nocpulse user.
>

Also add /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts which has all your kickstart files.

Perhaps a wiki page with dirs required for backup/restore would be good.

Mike
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