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#8 Re: Backing Up/Restoring Package Information? Posted by Chris2000 (62.204.xx.xx) on Wed 2 Nov 2005 at 09:10 Hi, I've also been trying this syncing approach. It works fine to some extent but I do wonder about those same problems Tom mentions. I'm looking for a way to run a group of remote servers (client_server) by just mantaining one master_server. Let's say we are pushing the master_server copy out to the client_server. The ssh keys should not be cloned to the client_server so we need to exclude /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* How many other examples like this exist on a linux system? Is it possible to list them? Would the list be too unstable to maintain easily? How about updating postfix on the master_server and then pushing the changes onto the client_server. If I list /etc/postfix I get dynamicmaps.cf master.cf postfix-script sasl sender_canonical.db main.cf postfix-files post-install sender_canonical Here, there are files that I don't want overwritten. So let's say I choose to exclude /etc/postfix from the copy. But what happens if a postfix update on the master_server changes the format of the config files? (updates often do that sort of thing). Do I get inconsistency between the config files and the rest of the package? Like Tom, I would prefer and easy solution to this. I've started to put a list together. **** files and directories to exclude when pushing an update **** /etc/hosts /etc/resolve.conf /etc/dhcpd.conf /etc/firewall /etc/network /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/samba /var/spool /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf /boot /vmlinuz /initrd.img /lib/modules /etc/fstab /etc/mtab /etc/mdadm /etc/rsync /etc/hostname /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* /etc/ssl /var/tmp /var/log /var/run /var/lock /root/ /mount /media /proc /tmp /dev /usr/src /home ************************ Chris.

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