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Mounting NFS-Shares with Cfengine 3
One often used service is NFS. The ability of mounting a file system over the network is very handy and even I use it regularly in my projects. Now imagine a scenario where you manage the configuration...
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Mounting NFS-Shares with Puppet
Welcome to the next part of my little blog entry series about comparing Cfengine 3 with Puppet. In this issue, we will write a Puppet manifest for mounting a NFS share. You can compare it directly to...
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Performing simple Backups with Cfengine 3
Today I noticed that it might be useful to backup some folders on one of my VMs from time to time. At first I thought about creating a new cron job, but then I noticed that Cfengine 3 is running on...
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Workaround for failed NFS mounts within Debian FAI and Dracut
Yesterday I struggled with installing new VMs with Debian FAI. As it turned out, both Dracut and the FAI tools failed to mount the NFS exports from the FAI server with NFS, proto=UDP. This happened...
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