Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Miki,
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Well, I have had one good experience with a Debian stable server.
Upgrade from Potato to Woody via remote SSH
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Miki,
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Well, I have had one good experience with a Debian stable server.
03 2004, 10:39,Jonathan Ben Avraham:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Miki,
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Well, I have had one
Quoth Jonathan Ben Avraham:
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Wisest advice ever seen on this forum. Live upgrades are an idea for the
adventure-minded.
Instead, use different hardware to
Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Miki,
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it,
ever.
Hear, hear!
I feel this is being dragged into a distro flamewar, but I'll bite anyways.
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
I wanted to comment briefly on that. I have no experience with
Mandrake, but a long history with Red Hat. In my experience:
- Each system that was kept up-to-date by hand and on which newer,
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:33:27PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
Mandrake 9.2 upgrades cleanly older Mandrake systems (and at least on one
occasion, a RedHat 8.x) - just stick it into your coffee holder and
run /mnt/cdrom/live_update as root from X. it will present you with the
Mandrake 9.2
Just a thought :
If the server is dedicated to (IIRC) web server and SQL
one can carefully make two versions available simultaniously
(bounded to different IP). It will work with apache for sure.
About SQL - it may conflict on the database (or the database
structure) so deepen check is needed.
Hi Miki,
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Instead, use different hardware to make a clean installation. Then migrate
the data using rsync and test the new server at your leisure. When you and
