Snapshotting repos

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Hi
I am working on a simple  internal file based (symlinks) method to snapshot
repos on a monthly basis making use of cobbler. For various reasons we are
not using spacewalk to manage that... I am thinking with a Red Hat / CentOS
hat on so probably not considering other OS'es. My question is simple, do
you think that adding a repo snapshot ability to cobbler is worthwhile or is
that task better suited to be implemented in spacewalk or other management
software? If our interim solution becomes more permanent, I thought it would
be useful to build this into cobbler rather than tagging it on afterwards.
However things get more complicated if you take into consideration that
these snapshots potentially need to be replicated across multiple cobbler
servers and all of the other things I have probably not considered. So
before I go off on a tangent I thought I would get some opinions.

Regards
-- 
Gerhardus Geldenhuis

[Tom Ellis]

On 30/08/11 17:08, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
>  Hi
>  I am working on a simple  internal file based (symlinks) method to
>  snapshot repos on a monthly basis making use of cobbler. For various
>  reasons we are not using spacewalk to manage that... I am thinking with
>  a Red Hat / CentOS hat on so probably not considering other OS'es. My
>  question is simple, do you think that adding a repo snapshot ability to
>  cobbler is worthwhile or is that task better suited to be implemented in
>  spacewalk or other management software? If our interim solution becomes
>  more permanent, I thought it would be useful to build this into cobbler
>  rather than tagging it on afterwards. However things get more
>  complicated if you take into consideration that these snapshots
>  potentially need to be replicated across multiple cobbler servers and
>  all of the other things I have probably not considered. So before I go
>  off on a tangent I thought I would get some opinions. 
Hi,

Are you planning to do this on-top of the current repo management
facilities?

I know for fedora/centos reposync is used, for debian/ubuntu it uses
debmirror.

The layout of the debian repository structure allows for easy
"snapshotting" using symlinks on the Packages.gz and Release file,
debmirror recently got this feature and more with the --debmarshal switch.

Cheers,

Tom