diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/client/modes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/client/modes.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/client/modes.txt b/doc/client/modes.txt index 55aec34e7..aa5a1c2ac 100644 --- a/doc/client/modes.txt +++ b/doc/client/modes.txt @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Interactive mode The client can be run interactively (-I) so that you are able to step through each operation in order to see what the client is doing. +.. _client-modes-paranoid: + Paranoid mode ============= @@ -46,8 +48,10 @@ by _'s. For example, the old ``/etc/hosts`` will be named Extra configuration ------------------- -Here is an example of how to use the extra paranoid features available -in 1.0. For the following section in ``bcfg2.conf``:: +.. versionadded:: 1.0.0 + +Here is an example of how to use some of the extra paranoid features +available. For the following section in ``bcfg2.conf`` (client-side):: [paranoid] path = /my/custom/backup/path @@ -56,6 +60,21 @@ in 1.0. For the following section in ``bcfg2.conf``:: You will have the file backups store in ``/my/custom/backup/path``. This will also keep the five most recent backups of files. +Altering the global metadata to enable paranoid mode for all files +------------------------------------------------------------------ + +You may also want to just globally enable the *paranoid* attribute for +all files distributed to clients from your Bcfg2 server. You can +accomplish this by adding a global metadata override in your +``bcfg2.conf`` (server-side) with the following syntax:: + + [mdata] + paranoid=true + +This will override the default value of "paranoid=false" and change it to +"true" which will cause every file you add or update in your Bcfg2 repo +to backup on the client as specified in your client config. + Overall client service mode =========================== |