2.3. Pulp Data Considerations

You can clone Satellite server without including Pulp data. However, for your cloned environment to work, you do require Pulp data. If the target server does not have Pulp data. it is not a fully working Satellite.

To transfer Pulp data to a target server, you have two options:

  • Clone using backup with Pulp data
  • Clone using backup without Pulp data and copy /var/lib/pulp manually from source server.

If your pulp_data.tar file is greater than 500 GB, or if you use a slow storage system, such as NFS, and your pulp_data.tar file is greater than 100 GB, do not include pulp_data.tar in the backup because this can cause memory errors during extraction. Copy the pulp_data.tar file from the source server to the target server.

To back up without Pulp data

Follow the steps in the procedure in 「Cloning Satellite Server」 and replace the steps that involve cloning with Pulp data with the following steps:

  1. Perform a backup with MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases active excluding the Pulp data: 

    # satellite-maintain backup offline --skip-pulp-content \
--assumeyes /var/backup

  2. Stop and disable the satellite-maintain services 

    # satellite-maintain service stop
# satellite-maintain service disable

  3. Copy the Pulp data to the target server: 

    # rsync --archive --partial --progress --compress \
/var/lib/pulp target_server.example.com:/var/lib/pulp

Proceed to 「Cloning to the Target Server」.