Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:19:22 +0200 From: Scott Harrison <scott@mithrandir.com> To: Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices for remote upgrade? Message-ID: <ECEE3367-C048-437F-B1D6-1156DB98C65E@mithrandir.com> In-Reply-To: <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> <20060508231759.GC545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>
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On May 9, 2006, at 12:56 , Hans Lambermont wrote: > David Wolfskill wrote: > >> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Scott Harrison wrote: >>> I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and >>> perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these >>> machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know >>> whether it >>> is possible for me to upgrade the machines with only ssh access, and >>> what one should do to go about upgrading them. > ... >> I then have little shell scripts to use "dump | restore" to >> "clone" the >> file systems from one slice to the other. > ... >> * Reboot from the "other" slice (the target of the above operation). >> * Upgrade in place. >> * Reboot (without changing active slice). > > I do almost the same; I do not reboot to the other slice to upgrade > it, > instead I use the current slice to upgrade, and if that fails > reboot to > the other slice (the backup slice). It's the same idea, with one less > reboot. > > This dual-boot-slice (or disk :) setup also allows for the UFS->UFS2 > transition. > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and live repartition it to be like this? -- Β·πππͺπ Β·π£πΊπ¦ππ©π― Scott Harrison
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