From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 8:44: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7625637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED85443FB1 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h25Gi0O70482 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:44:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts To: freebsd Subject: 4.3 -> RELENG_4 Message-ID: <20030305113639.S51291-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unfortunatly, I have never successfully upgraded a Free box yet, mind you I have only tried it on one. Last year I was dropped into a production environment with all 4.3 machines. I have no devel equipment prior to 4.6. The upgrade attempts were all only on one box (4.6) and failed due to suspect hardware. My question is not howto upgrade, but; 1> Since I have only production equipment to 'test' an upgrade on, I am very nervous. At what point of the upgrade procedure is it too late to turn back if something does not go right. 2> I keep amanda tape backups of every file system on all machines. If something goes critically wrong, can the system be rebooted at least to the point where I can pull data back off tapes? Tks for all help! Steve Bertrand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message