[ncolug] Re: /etc/shadow !! in password file
- From: "M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:39:19 -0400
I hear what you are all saying, but you can't backup what was there
yesterday, and the vast majority of the time when a failure occurs it will
be faster to just rebuild as restoring from the backup would start with a
rebuild anyway.
We're talking a VMware hypervisor install.... not anything like building
KVM out on a Linux install.
Also with the restore process for VMware, I would have had to place this
host in maintenance mode. Since this client does not have the resources
for a full N+1 setup, some of his guests would have experienced an outage.
Instead of having downtime, I simply re-created the accounts. Zero
business interruption.
Mike K.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Chuck <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with Mike Bell, the host should be backed-up as well as the
> guests.
>
>
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:50 -0400, Mike wrote:
> > On 06/20/2013 01:52 PM, M. Knisely wrote:
> > > This is a VMware host... there's no backup... I have backups of the
> > > guests, but not the host.
> > >
> > > UID:GID 99 is the default for this user on VMware. In VMware the
> > > UID:GID of 65534 is for "nfsnobody"... another account I have to
> recreate.
> > >
> > > Mike K.
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm, to my way of thinking the host is more important than the guests.
> > Having at least /etc/ backed up would alleviate many headaches.
> >
> > Mike
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