Ugh.. spend over a month rebuilding this stupid hacked together, glorified PXE boot box and it's done and finally rebuilt, pass it off to engineering and find it out was all for nothing because apparently the RAID array on it was never actually used.. even though they insisted it was and we lost all of the cobbler configs and images anyway...

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So now I have to recreate everything anyway... oh and someone thought it would be a good idea to rsync the cobbler configs from another master in another datacenter... so now the UI is flooded with systems from wrong datacenter. GRRRR... and it's still running on old hardware.. with a hacked up to fit desktop mobo in it. I should have pushed harder to just rebuild it from scratch on new hardware. /hindsight

Then again this damn thing was formerly owned by the same engineering team with a customer facing and impacting system with no backups, no redundancy and that stopped new content filter defs from being deployed for 2 days when it lost a drive.

more shit to add to fragile points docs. :D

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