Thanks Greek, i will explore this option... right now im upgrading servers that have a separate partition for the files but soon i will need to upgrade those which has / and files in the same partition
________________________________ From: Greek Ordono <[email protected]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 6:15:49 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance (eric pareja) If your root is setting on a different partition/disk you might as well upgrade using debootstrap on another disk. "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" -- Greek Ordono myppa: launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa --- On Mon, 9/27/10, Red Sancho <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Red Sancho <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance (eric pareja) >To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" ><[email protected]> >Date: Monday, 27 September, 2010, 3:44 PM > > > >Thanks guys, we found that the raid controller and its settings was the >culprit >for the corruption of data. write-back cache was enabled without a battery >backup unit moving forward, thanks for all the suggestions. Our reason for >upgrading is security. also a backup policy will be implemented for certain >users of our websites only, freeloaders will still be prone to data loss :D > > > ________________________________ From: Paulito Palmes <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 12:21:08 PM >Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance (eric pareja) > >>Sancho, > >>What conditions made you decide to upgrade from Etch to current Debian version? >>"Latest and the greatest" in software isn't always the best, >>especially when aiming at stability on production systems. > >I think it is advisable to upgrade because security support of etch >stopped from Feb 15, 2010: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121 > > >-----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph/
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