Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:05:32 -0700 From: Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: OS upgrade planning? Message-ID: <B9DC5D2C.3A80%ukla@attbi.com>
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Hi All, Thanks to everyone for their help with my odd problems. This is just a "venture an opinion if you have a moment" question. Problem: need to upgrade FreeBSD 4.3 on a production machine. My plan so far - feel free to shoot this down :P DEFINITIONS: - Drive1/Master = D1 - Drive2/Slave = D2 - Production Machine ID = PD - Staging Machine ID: SM - Shared = Contains client data. mail, website files, mySQL DBs etc. PD: 2 drives SM: 2 drives # 1: PM:D2 - make Shared # 2: move all "shared" data to PM:D2 # 3: symlink from filesystem on PM:D1 to PM:D2 # 4: SM:D1 - install latest FreeBSD stable. # 5: SM:D2 - make into a Shared partition # 6: symlink from filesystem on SM:D1 to SM:D2 # 7: test SM # 8: Replace PM:D1 with SM:D1 In theory I should now be able to swap PM:D1 with newer installed versions from SM:D1 whenever I have installed and tested them. I know I can do a "make buildworld" but I quite like the idea of swapping out one drive with another (via sled) as this means reverting takes less than a minute and testing can be at my leisure. I am also a little scared of doing a buildworld on a production machine in case it all goes horribly wrong :) Anyway, thoughts, ideas and suggestions gratefully received. TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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