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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:41:21 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements
Message-ID:  <FF8E3D52-5C7C-43FC-AA54-49B48957ACD5@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <62b856460803190546t4abfcb9fu7d3410646d81b656@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Michael Grant wrote:
> My server is live and serving customers.  I can't afford to take the
> box down for a whole day while I upgrade ports.  Is there any
> intelligent way to do this?

Here's what you do:

1) take one server at a time down from the load balancer/worker pool
2) upgrade it
3) put it back in service
4) go to step 1 until all servers are updated.




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