-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Basil Chupin wrote:

Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:

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Since I have critical apps and db's, which way to upgrade is safer.

Upgrade or reinstall ?

P.S. I already have a drive to mirror 11.0

Thanks

New install. Always the best as it doesn't leave any (unwanted) residue behind.

Ciao.

I would tend to use the following sequence but adapt it to your requirements... i) Backup ii) Backup the Backup (i.e. do at least one backup by a different means you cannot have too many backups). In the past I have been in situations where an upgrade would have been in trouble when the primary backup proved to be damaged or unusable. iii) Database info ideally should be dumped with the relevant database dump/backup facilities. File based backup is quite likely to fail between database versions because of schema and other differences. A database dump is a safer option to import old data. (Note upgrading usually updates data in place if required). iii) Make paper notes of fstab and partition info. iv) Upgrade, particularly if you have a lot of database info, or a lot of configured applications and you do not want to manually check the configuration of them all. If successful goto viii otherwise continue. v) Clean install. vi) Restore non database based backup data. vii) Restore database data from database backups. viii). Verify it works as expected. If not goto v) either with old version or retry with new.. Good Luck PS I hate goto statements :-) - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmCy4cACgkQasN0sSnLmgLy/QCgwZs/7P8uP9f2SIitSdicMOOI OlsAn3/fUCdqXBrtri215Ga5vdWbYMdP =nqGE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org