On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:48:48 G T Smith wrote:
On Wednesday, 2008-12-17 at 09:24 -0000, Clive Rogers wrote:
Some more remarks... Personally i always do a fresh install, as it gave me he opportunaty to get rid of old things and have a fresh start. Configurations printed-out and on usb-stick.
On work however, this is not possible, too many data and config other people changed. So for 10.3 => 11.0 i upgraded a couple of dozen systems without a hitch! Splendid.
Aditional point: Dont make just a backup. Not good enough if you're using databases/directories. For those I would recommend additional mysqldumps and ldif files. Better safe than sorry.
Agreed, mysql usually will update a database schema on an update but has been known to throw the occasional glitch. If you have anything on any database and it has a dump/backup facility use that to do a backup (and incidentally use that facility regularly as part of a backup procedure. A file only backup is usually inadequate when upgrading, migrating and for any recovery operations on a database.).
Similar applies to anything one has held on Subversion or CVS, use the appropriate tools to create a recoverable/migratable dump.
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All good and valid points about back ups. I do back up every weekend and keep 3 complete backups just incase. I must admit I did get caught out and had a system crash that wiped my harddrives. Since then I learnt. Thanks for the feed back. I will backup and update some time this weekend if I get the chance. -- Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org