import/export patch content between connected and disconnected Satellite
Hey All,
before I begin, here is my situation. We want to use Satellite to patch our RHEL servers across various air-gaped networks. We have a connected Satellite server we use to download all patch content we need. We then need to import all the content from the connected to various air-gaped/disconnected Satellite servers.
I'm trying to figure out the best method to do this. This is what I'm thinking so far:
On the connected satellite, I create a content view, I call it "Master_Content". This view has all content I want to import into my disconnected satellite servers (currently 550GB). I then run an export of the content view to a folder. I copy the folder to an external storage device, and carry it over to my 1st disconnected satellite server. I create a new folder and copy the content here. I log into my disconnected satellite web UI, update the Red Hat CDN to the new folder and upload the manifest.
At this point I now have a local repository of content for the disconnected satellite. The disconnected satellite server does not have any content view or anything so this gives me the flexibility to leverage content views for that network as I see fit.
I think this is the correct way to do this, but the questions I have now are:
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I did my first large export of content to my disconnected satellites, in two weeks I need to repeat the process, but I only want to export/import all new packages and not the entire content. Is this possible? My thought on this is I would create a new version of "Master_Content" content view with a filter to exclude any content from the previous version. I would then export/import that into the disconnected Satellite. But I have a follow up question to this:
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The content view export folder name is based on the version, and my disconnected satellite CDN is pointed to the original content view. How would I import the new content into the original content on the disconnected satellite. The challenge I'm seeing is that the disconnected satellite doesn't see the exported content view as a true content view, so how to I have two content views in on CDN URL?
I suspect I'm on the right track, but I feel I'm missing some information that could help. This is why I'm reaching out, I'm hoping someone can give me some perspective on how I'm handling this, if I'm on the right track, or off to left field so to speak.
Thanks in advance for any assist I get.
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