Puppet users - Dec 2012 - It is possible to transfer files from nodes to master?

Hi, 
  
    I''m newbie to puppet, and I was wondering if it is possible to get 
files from nodes to master, not only in uniderictional way like master to 
agent nodes.
    To be more specific, I need to create dumps of client''s database
and
get it back to the server.

   Thank you!


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On 4 December 2012 05:33, cristy <cristynba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>    Hi,
>
>     I''m newbie to puppet, and I was wondering if it is possible to
get
> files from nodes to master, not only in uniderictional way like master to
> agent nodes.
>     To be more specific, I need to create dumps of client''s
database and
> get it back to the server.
>
Kind of.
Maybe.
It''s theoretically possibly using exported resources but you would need
to
dynamically create them using some kind of exec.
I can imagine how it would work but it would be pretty complex and probably
not the best way to "cut your teeth" as it were.


Pete.



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Cristy,

Puppet doesn''t have a built-in way to grab data from the client-side
and save it on the Master.  There IS the Filebucket
(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#filebucket
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/filebucket.html) but that''s not
something I would feel comfortable doing (it''s better for backing up a
file before Puppet replaces the file).

Having said that, you could have exec resources for each task (creating a
database dump, sending the task to a remote server) that would model this, but
you would have to specify what each task means (i.e. HOW it gets the data dump
and HOW it sends it back to the Master).

Does that make sense? 

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On Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11:33 AM, cristy wrote:
> 
> 
>    Hi, 
>   
>     I''m newbie to puppet, and I was wondering if it is possible to
get files from nodes to master, not only in uniderictional way like master to
agent nodes.
>     To be more specific, I need to create dumps of client''s
database and get it back to the server.
> 
>    Thank you!
> 
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Hi again.

It''s probably a better idea to use a dedicated backup tool to do this.
Puppet wasn''t designed as a backup tool. It can likely be setup to
manage
the backup software and such.
I personally do backups with amanda which I manage with puppet using a
module I found and some extra classes to generate some exported resources
to configure the actual backups on the amanda server.
I use another tool to do mysql backups it''s called xtrabackup and it
only
does MySQL databases.
I then use rsync (Also managed with puppet) to copy those backups to a
backup server.

Pete.


On 4 December 2012 14:36, Gary Larizza <gary@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Cristy,
>
> Puppet doesn''t have a built-in way to grab data from the
client-side and
> save it on the Master.  There IS the Filebucket (
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#filebucket
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/filebucket.html) but that''s not
something
> I would feel comfortable doing (it''s better for backing up a file
before
> Puppet replaces the file).
>
> Having said that, you could have exec resources for each task (creating a
> database dump, sending the task to a remote server) that would model this,
> but you would have to specify what each task means (i.e. HOW it gets the
> data dump and HOW it sends it back to the Master).
>
> Does that make sense?
>
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> Gary Larizza
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>
> On Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11:33 AM, cristy wrote:
>
>
>
>    Hi,
>
>     I''m newbie to puppet, and I was wondering if it is possible to
get
> files from nodes to master, not only in uniderictional way like master to
> agent nodes.
>     To be more specific, I need to create dumps of client''s
database and
> get it back to the server.
>
>    Thank you!
>
>
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