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From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Brian W. <brian@brianwhalen.net> wrote:

> It is time to do the above for me. I have done several upgrades within the
> same major version but have not done a version hop yet. Aside from extra
> paranoia about backups and the need to rebuild all ports, are there other
> gotchas to watch out for? I am going to try it on a test VM system first.
>
> Brian
>
>
See here - http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/

Tested/proven methods!

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