Hello y'all,
Early morning, but it is a darn good morning too.
I did test a couple of things this morning to see how stable the upgrade
goes.
To have this done I did a full backup before I started.
Checked the tape for success and looked good.
Pop out the tape and keep it handy.
Performed an upgrade from 4.1b4 to 4.1rc2 with only one message in the boot
(dmesg output):
change_root: old root has d_count=4
Trying to unmount old root ... <3>error -16
Change root to /initrd: error -2
After making sure everything is running as it should I move the CD to
another "test" server.
Installed fresh and did a restore through the web console. At first I
thought nothing was happening, but it is a slower system. It did restore
the files it needed and was up and running, I have not connected this one to
the network yet, but will do this later.
Any way, so far so good, I am going to grab a java at my favorite hangout
and will continue testing today.
Greetings,
Aldert E. van der Laan
London, Ontario
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Rowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Aldert E. van der Laan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Darrell May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "E-smith devel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] How to check if backup was successful
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:32:33PM -0500, "Aldert E. van der Laan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Now as far as the other question as to is this backup usable to safely
> > update to any future 4.1 release?
> > Or will I use this as a restore for the current 4.1b4 only?
> > [...]
>
> No, a backup from any e-smith server should restore cleanly onto a
> _freshly installed_ e-smith server of a later release. The backup/restore
> is designed for system backup and recovery and a full restore only makes
> sense if it is done directly after a system install.
>
> Think of the backup as a system snapshot which you want to recover.
Included
> in that snapshot are the accounts database and password files. If you
create
> users before doing the restore, they will be lost as you go back in time
> to the time of the backup.
>
> And yes, we are thinking about other methods...
>
