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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:45 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net>
Cc:        "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rodrigo A B Freire" <bsdstuffs@brasilia.br>
Subject:   Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug.
Message-ID:  <20020116212053.2F37448449@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020116175313.891BE5D13@ptavv.es.net>

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:53:13 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> >Once you have installed world, if the new kernel won't work you system
>> >might not run properly with the old kernel and backing out the world
>> >install is a major pain.
>> >
>> >The instructions in UPDATING were written to provide a safe, fairly
>> >easy way to update a system. Think carefully of what you are doing
>> >before diverging from them.
>> 
>> well, in that case, if it doesn't work, it'll test your backups to see
>> if they'll work :)
>
>It will also check out your adeptness in explaining to your boss why a
>server was down for 3 hours while you restored the system (including
>panicked investigation of whether there is a way to avoid the need to
>restore, the time to load the backup tapes into the DLT's hopper,
>and the time to actually restore 3 or 4 levels of dump).
>
>Of course, if it's just a test system, you might not care. And I'm
>sure you always deploy updates on a test system before trying them on
>any production system. :-)

my production system is my test system- it just runs on a home network
to receive mail etc.  and i have a backup mail server, so it is just a
good working experiment in progress :)

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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