From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 11:48:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D38FA16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:48:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: from mail.firebadger.net (82-69-4-157.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4F4A43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:48:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: (qmail 37908 invoked by uid 1011); 10 Nov 2005 10:47:16 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by brian.firebadger.net (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1038. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.147636 secs); 10 Nov 2005 10:47:16 -0000 X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER-Mail-From: richard@firebadger.net via brian.firebadger.net X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.147636 secs Process 37902) Received: from localhost (HELO www.firebadger.net) (richard@firebadger.net@127.0.0.1) by mail.firebadger.net with SMTP; 10 Nov 2005 10:47:16 -0000 Received: from 83.146.34.219 (SquirrelMail authenticated user richard@firebadger.net) by www.firebadger.net with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:47:16 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <52320.83.146.34.219.1131619636.squirrel@www.firebadger.net> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:47:16 -0000 (GMT) From: "Richard Collyer" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Upgrading to 6.0 - Would this backup strategy work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:48:29 -0000 Hello, I'm thinking of upgrading my 5.4 box to 6.0 mainly becuase I've never done a buildworld I've always installed a fresh. The box is not production quality just something for me to learn BSD on. I have a 7006-2 3ware raid controller miroring on 2 drives. If I was to remove one of the drives and then do the upgrade if the upgrade was successful I could put the other drive in a build the array again. If it failedi could use the old drive to rebuild a working system quickly. Anyone see any issues with this? Cheers Richard -- Richard Collyer richard@firebadger.net