From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:37:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Large-scale configuration backup with GIT?
Message-ID: <85642spzvs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070902201724.GB10567@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:

> I'm just thinking about storing our whole company's configuration into
> GIT, because I'm all too used to it. That is, there are configuration
> dumps of n*10000 routers and switches, as well as "regular"
> configuration files on server machines (mostly Linux and Solaris.)
> While probably all of the server machines could run GIT natively, we
> already have some scripts to dump all router's/switch's configuration
> to a Solaris system, so we could it import/commit from there. There
> might be a small number of Windows machines, but I guess these will be
> done by exporting the interesting stuff to Linux/Solaris machines...
>
> I initially thought about running a git-init-db on each machine's root
> directory and adding all interesting files, but that might hurt GIT's
> usage for single software projects on those machines, no?

It could break shell scripts, since
cd /;echo `pwd`/filename
does not return /filename.

I don't think that the root directory is a good place for starting
git.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum