From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 19: 3:47 2002 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 E07A737B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9CC43E6E for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0H1000E1XO3U4K@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:57:30 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H10O8602.G05 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:00:06 +0800 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:00:06 +0000 (GMT) From: BSD Freak Subject: How do YOU do your "Clean install" upgrades To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <13f15af13f01d6.13f01d613f15af@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en 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 Hi all, I'm interested in adopting/devising one of the "clean install" upgrade methods. By this I mean when a new version of FreeBSD comes out, you 1. copy all your data and configuration files from the machine you want to upgrade to another machine on the network 2. do clean install deleting everything on the machine being upgraded 3. move the data and configuration files back over to the original machine with the newly upgraded OS I know some of you do this and I really want to adopt one of these methods. I have some who do it using CVS, other who do with a combination of scp, find and md5. My question is how do YOU do it and what is the best (most easily automated/safe) method? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message