Hi, > Just to get this clear...will E-Box only run on Ubuntu or will it still be > compatible with Debian systems like Etch, etc?
The next version will only run in Ubuntu. We really want to release an Etch or Lenny version too, but I can't tell you when as it depends on the resources we will have in the future. I haven't tried yet, but I don't think it will be very painful to make it work on Etch or Lenny. > If not, how will one go about doing a full upgrade of your current system > with Debian Sarge to Ubuntu without having a lot of down time? Our recommendation will be to backup your old ebox, reinstall the machine and restore the backup. I strongly recommend installing a new eBox in a virtual machine, restore the backup and check everything is working ok before reinstalling the actual production machine. To do that smoothly, we will focus during the next weeks on having a solid restore backup system and create procedures and documentation to guide you through this process. So to help us with this task, we would appreciate if you guys try to restore backups of your production machines in virtual or spare machines and you give us feedback. The final goal is having a rock solid backup mechanism. We have created tools to work in a more fine-grained way with backups, things like restoring just one module, just data configuration, and so on. We are working on tools to help with the users and groups module which is probably the weakest part when it comes to restore a backup from Debian to Ubuntu. But as I said before, in a few weeks we will provide the tools and procedures which help to carry out this task smoothly. _______________________________________________ Ebox-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
