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Re:Ask HN: Server Management Best Practices by staunch on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:14PM (#6719579)
There is no canonical book that I know of. I'm sure there are some books though if you check Amazon for "Linux System Administration". They might not be a bad place to start.

I use rsync for backups. Storing configuration management files in Git works. Puppet and Chef are the most popular configuration management systems, they work just fine.

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Re:Ask HN: Server Management Best Practices by jacquesct on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @08:31AM (#6801029)
Chef for configuration files. Customisations for Chef Attributes are in a json.php file on the chef host that merges various things like specific settings for a datacenter, host role, etc.

Google Docs for certain information as well as a wiki. There are Standard Operating Proceedures (SOP's) for numerous tasks also in the wiki which explains things in detail.

Munin for graphing along with some metrics being polulated into Zabbix.

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