All my bad for not setting this up before I left for vacation. Sorry all 😕

BackBlaze B2 is also pretty cost-effective for a second copy, which restic can auto-sync.

Hetzner it is

sounds like Charlie wants to contribute a puppet profile for it

Well... I can give you an undocumented container build that deploys to Kubernetes and runs periodic backup+sync 😉 https://github.com/Sharpie/infra-images/tree/main/images/restic

nah thanks 😄

Even runs on Hetzner's delightfully cheap ARM instances 🙂

@bastelfreak You might actually check on the vox mirror and see if I backed things up somewhere. I might have before I set up the manual sync from S3. I don’t think so but I can’t remember for sure.

@spp has left the channel

@nickb is the reprepo db on your local system or is that also part of the actual apt repo and was just overwritten last night?

Local I’m afraid. It’s bad and I should feel bad.

Another option is just to recreate the repo completely. Do sign_from_s3 for every version of every component.

I really honestly do know better than maintaining things locally. I’ve been too distracted lately 😕

we've daily snapshots for the VM, so if something is required I can restore it

Oh nice! You could revert to yesterday, then kinda do a reverse sync back to s3

But then you’d have to wait for me to get back to add. So maybe just recreate it in the GCP instance and I’ll use that from here on out.

Until we get it into GHA or a lambda or whatever

Ive searched through the history here to see about thoughts on creating a forge. After a call with perforce about buying puppet core (outrageous pricing) they seemed to use the forge as a big selling point for buying puppet core. I think their intention is put that behind a paywall sooner rather than later. So my question, you guys said in march you would wait until/if its broken to fix it. Is the software already available to recreate the forge if it were needed? I ask because we are thinking of switching to ansible because of the uncertainty with the forge.

what was their selling point?

well switch to openvox and not ansible?

They used what the forge provides as a selling point. We are going to be switching to the openvox builds quickly, but if puppet forge went away I feel we would be stuck. Which is where the switch to ansible comes from.

even if forge did not exist, you could still get pretty much everything from [GitHub.com](http://GitHub.com)

I don't think it's a big benefit. the forge is down so often that the majority of people pull from github anyways

Well, that is an option.

I wonder what the pricing was

we maintain https://www.puppetmodule.info/modules already and it's quite easy to link to github releases

$45/node msrp.

i didnt sign an NDA or anything so thats what it was

damn expensive for such a bad EULA you will have

agree.