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From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Subject: Re: upgrading FreeBSD
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On 02 Feb Erik Trulsson wrote:
> The sequence
>  backup all data
>  make a fresh install of 5.3
>  restore data from backup
> will almost certainly be quicker, simpler, and less prone to
> catastrophic failure.
> 
> (Making a backup of all important data is a *very* good idea anyway.)

You're so right ;-)
Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important
data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy
part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running
system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very
important data dirs, but what others are too?

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