On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 10:23 +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > Are you quite sure this is necessary? > In debian, you just 'apt-get upgrade' can't you immitate it with RH?
As mentioned before - Nope. Its not an inherent weakness of RPM based distros - if that's what you were thinking - I have successfully upgraded in the past live Mandriva installations from one major to another (sometimes even 2 majors remote), both full and partial upgrades, and I'm pretty sure you can do as well in SuSE. But it can't be done with RedHat/Fedora, see previous thread - "Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)". > On 6/11/06, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:42 -0700, E Leibovich wrote: > > Given a live server that runs many relatively uncommon > programs (for instance openACS) and which runs RH9. > How would you upgrade it with minimal downtime? > If minimal downtime is what you want, then you have to get > another box - install it with the OS of your choice and verify > it works, mail it to the US and install it near the old box, > stop all the services on the old box, migrate all the data > over and start the new one. If done properly - and depending > on the amount of data and what can be copied before stopping > the service - you'd be looking at 30 minutes to two hours > downtime. > > Last time I did something like this it took me about a week to > get the new machine to work the way I want (after it was > installed on the rack), and then about 15 minutes for the move > - of which, of course, only the 15 minutes were actual > downtime. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
