-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David C. Rankin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2008-04-23 at 16:07 +0200, Tamas Sarga wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know your opinion about upgrade vs. new installation.
Each one has his own opinion. You just have to browse the archives and find hundreds (literally) of them.
I always upgrade.
And mine is I never upgrade. Just make sure you save the data you need and then do a fresh install. I've never been bitten by a missing package, etc.. Carlos has had good luck with the upgrade, I haven't. If your data is backed up, it is really a "who cares" issue. If the upgrade bombs, the just wipe it out and do a fresh install. All your data is perfectly backed up and safe -- right?
In my case I now try to make at least two different copies of any data on at least two different media formats or locations (the number of occasions I have been caught out by newer versions of software not liking older data formats, media or device failures, or other interesting surprises is rather more than I like to think about). I would generally prefer to prepare a specific validated backup set as a preparation for the upgrade/install as a fallback option in case the regular backup is inadequate. (Often this the moment one discovers the things that the regular backup procedures were missing for one reason or another). With things like database and subversion full dumps are a good idea, file level restore probably will work but I would not rely on it to. Then perform an upgrade, and if that fails installation from scratch is the option of last resort. If you have a lot of stuff (e.g. source code ,home built apps and rpms, and applications that are not part of the distribution) installed the install from scratch option only really has one major advantage (clearing out the dead wood). If the update fails, hopefully this will be the only opportunity one will get to test out how good your backup procedure really is... :-) If you are in the position to have a spare box to do a test run on, so much the better, one can probably work out which approach is going to give the least pain and what the likely gotchas are going to be. - -- ============================================================================== 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 v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIEEooasN0sSnLmgIRAk8oAKCJDT1knoFzlF54R+pFX3kdu4BwMACfcBfO u1oqYrL+xNsCXwjESdEGfQU= =26/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org