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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:24:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tenebrae <tenebrae@niceboots.com>
To:        Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Advice Please
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112100935460.8790-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C1273A2.E269C6BB@vortex.wa4phy.net>

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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Sam Drinkard wrote:

> Hello group,
> 
>     I am now grabbing the -stable tree, and wish to attempt to upgrade
> from 4.3-R to Stable.  Reading all the docs/readme's etc now, but would
> like to know if there are any "gottcha's" before I proceed.  This is my
> first time doing this, and don't want to be left without a usable
> system.  Unfortunately, my tape drive has died, and don't have a current
> backup.  Can someone be so kind to make some suggestions as to the
> sequence I should proceed, and if there is anything I should be aware of
> before I start?

I also have no working tape drive (okay, that's not exactly true - I can't
verify it's working because I can't find any old travan tapes for a
Colorado T-1000e), but I always make a point of tar+gzipping my /etc/,
/var/mail/, and /home/ dirs and then FTPing them to another
computer.  Sometimes I have backups of important things on 3 or 4
different servers in case something ever happens to one of them.
Hey, it's better than nothing!
Good luck.
								-Tenebrae.



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