Migrating Cobbler to RHEL Satellite 5.3

[Adam Gogarty]

I am Looking to migrate Cobbler 1.4 onto RHEL Satellite 5.3 but do not 
believe current documentation solves my issue elegantly.

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/RelocatingYourInstall
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/MovingYourInstallToAnotherBox

I use Cobbler without the WUI to deploy systems so have 
distros/profiles/systems along with various snippets.
The existing Cobbler server is going to be rebuilt with 5.4/5 and 
Satellite 5.3 installed.
Existing documentation suggests using Cobbler replicate but this would 
require the original system to remain untouched.

I am considering the following course of action:
     * replicate the existing RHEL Cobbler 1.4 to my Fedora Laptop (w/ 
Cobbler 2.0)
     * rebuild the existing RHEL Cobbler 1.4 with RHEL Satellite 5.3
     * replicate from Fedora Laptop (w/ Cobbler 2.0) to RHEL Satellite 5.3

Is it possible to simply backup a list of Cobbler directories/files and 
migrate this to the RHEL Satellite 5.3 server?

I would like to document this process for the community once established.

Regards,

[Byron Pezan]

I've not done this, but I'm interested in your results.  I'd love to hear how this works out for you in the end.

Have you read the Wiki page about replication?  https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ReplicateMaster
I think it might answer some of your questions, if you haven't read it already of course.

byron

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Adam Gogarty
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:11 AM
To: Cobbler mailing list
Subject: Migrating Cobbler to RHEL Satellite 5.3

I am Looking to migrate Cobbler 1.4 onto RHEL Satellite 5.3 but do not 
believe current documentation solves my issue elegantly.

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/RelocatingYourInstall
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/MovingYourInstallToAnotherBox

I use Cobbler without the WUI to deploy systems so have 
distros/profiles/systems along with various snippets.
The existing Cobbler server is going to be rebuilt with 5.4/5 and 
Satellite 5.3 installed.
Existing documentation suggests using Cobbler replicate but this would 
require the original system to remain untouched.

I am considering the following course of action:
     * replicate the existing RHEL Cobbler 1.4 to my Fedora Laptop (w/ 
Cobbler 2.0)
     * rebuild the existing RHEL Cobbler 1.4 with RHEL Satellite 5.3
     * replicate from Fedora Laptop (w/ Cobbler 2.0) to RHEL Satellite 5.3

Is it possible to simply backup a list of Cobbler directories/files and 
migrate this to the RHEL Satellite 5.3 server?

I would like to document this process for the community once established.

Regards,

[Terry McIntyre]

On Apr 12, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Adam Gogarty wrote:
> I am Looking to migrate Cobbler 1.4 onto RHEL Satellite 5.3 but do not 
> believe current documentation solves my issue elegantly.
>
> <snppage>
> Is it possible to simply backup a list of Cobbler directories/files and 
> migrate this to the RHEL Satellite 5.3 server?
>
> I would like to document this process for the community once established.

I have backed up /var/lib/cobbler and /etc/cobbler, and used the old version to tweak a new installation.

This approach loses the distros - which are, if memory serves me, installed in /var/www/cobbler or some such.

Since I was upgrading versions of cobbler, it seemed safer to rebuild the distros from scratch. YMMV.