From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 20: 5:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CFA37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 20:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from miguel (miguel.reyes.somos.net [192.168.10.5]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA66570; Fri, 18 May 2001 23:04:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Message-Id: <200105190304.XAA66570@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Ray Smith" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:07:04 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;1) In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010518115934.00aaa010@cms.uwa.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: NetMAX and FreeBSD upgrade 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 On Fri, 18 May 2001 12:23:53 +0800, Ray Smith wrote: >Unfortunately I don't have another machine that can be used to replace the >current server. I can probably use an old pentium to transfer "essentials" >while the server is being worked on - things like our mail server, and the >file server, but that would be about all it can cope with. How about doing the setup on that pentium machine. Once you are happy then you can backup your data, install FreeBSD fresh on the current server and then restore your data. Even better/safer. Setup the pentium machine, copy all data/services to the machine and test it as if you would use it for production. This way if you encounter problems during the upgrade you can momentarily use the pentium machine. As long as one has a good tested backup, the biggest problem I find with upgrades is time. Specially if it is a major upgrade (i.e. moving to a new machine). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message