From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 17:04:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BBF1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:04:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bas@kompasmedia.nl) Received: from asterix.area536.com (static.17.18.47.78.clients.your-server.de [78.47.18.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C118FC18 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asterix.area536.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5444D27E77; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:58 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at asterix.area536.com Received: from asterix.area536.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (asterix.area536.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RcKGFF0di-El; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by asterix.area536.com (Postfix, from userid 33) id 2625E27E76; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:55 +0100 (CET) To: Mikolaj Rydzewski MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:03:55 +0100 From: "Bas v.d. Wiel" In-Reply-To: <4BA0F706.1010209@ceti.pl> References: <3f1c29e71003170656u1b932fd2v37f5062440653e3b@mail.gmail.com> <0b9982274818d454f23bc89ac74d30f5@asterix.area536.com> <3f1c29e71003170745u55a4fad2rd8c6f39d02fa968f@mail.gmail.com> <4BA0F706.1010209@ceti.pl> Message-ID: <57443e3f6cec390a13ed02c4d1d9afa4@asterix.area536.com> X-Sender: bas@kompasmedia.nl User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:04:00 -0000 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:36:38 +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: > Антон Клесс wrote: >> That is what I suspected for. >> >> What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is >> production >> server and I have to keep it working properly? >> >> 6.2-RC1 -> 6.2 RELEASE -> 7.2 RELEASE -> 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this >> style? >> > If it works, do not fix it! I beg to differ: having a release candidate running in production should never happen so this situation has been sort of broken from the start. Luckily FreeBSD is a rock solid OS! > > Actually, I'm facing exactly the same problem now: I want to upgrade > 6.2-RELEASE to something (8.0?) newer. > > Since I don't have spare machine for tests, I'm playing now with > VirtualBox (hosted on Linux). I'd like to test upgrade using > cvsup/buildworld. After I will success on virtualbox I'll perform the > same path on real machine. Making an image backup of the machine's disk before you start should give you a decent rollback scenario in case things go badly. Bas