Re: [atomic] Advice on backing up an atomic host

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 03/14/2017 02:19 AM, William Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to know if there is best practice to backup standalone atomic
> hosts. I'm running a few in a non-kubernetes setup. Tools like
> amanda-client won't install with rpm-ostree pkg-add, so I wanted to know
> if there is some advice here. Should I make a container that is
> privileged and mounts the host root to expose the backup interface? Or
> is there a better suggestion.

What version of atomic host are you running? rpm install support has
got better recently.

I just installed amanda-client on my fedora 25 atomic host system.
Snipped output below:

[root ip-10-0-8-252 ~]# rpm -q rpm-ostree 
rpm-ostree-2017.2-2.fc25.x86_64
[root ip-10-0-8-252 ~]# rpm-ostree install amanda-client 
Checking out tree 24d4499... done

...
Will download: 75 packages (17.3 MB)
...
Overlaying... done
Writing rpmdb... done
Writing OSTree commit... done
Copying /etc changes: 25 modified, 0 removed, 46 added
Transaction complete; bootconfig swap: yes deployment count change: 1
Freed objects: 207.6 kB
Added:
  amanda-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64
  amanda-client-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64
  amanda-libs-3.4.2-1.fc25.x86_64

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