diff --git a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
index 9305d435..cc327785 100644
--- a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
+++ b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class saml_metadata($filename=undef, $cert=undef, $url=undef) {
 }
 
 class md_repo_client {
-   sunet::snippets::reinstall::keep {'/etc/metadata': } ->
+   sunet::snippets::reinstall::keep {['/etc/metadata','/root/.ssh']: } ->
    sunet::ssh_git_repo {'/var/cache/metadata_r1':
       username    => 'root',
       group       => 'root',