Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:06:38 +0200 From: Radomskiy Yuriy <yurius.r@yandex.ua> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading a dozen of servers from 7.0 to 8.1 Message-ID: <181471295967999@web59.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTingd93KOxbCKYJxpsvR%2B3qxAgY-OQ7nicjME6An@mail.gmail.com> References: <998111295618056@web50.yandex.ru> <AANLkTingd93KOxbCKYJxpsvR%2B3qxAgY-OQ7nicjME6An@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello. Thank you and everyone who answered. I will share my experinece to the list when I walk my way throught the upgrade ) 21.01.2011, 17:13, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Radomskiy Yuriy <yurius.r@yandex.ua>; wrote: > >> šHello! >> >> šI have around 15 servers running FreeBSD 7.0 across the country. >> šI would like to upgrade them to 7.3 or even 8.1 using binary updates. >> šThey are primary mail servers all running apache-2.0 + php5-5.2.10, >> šmysql-server-5.1, exim-4.69, dovecot-1.1 >> šThey are almost identical - they were identical a couple of years ago, but >> šnow they have some minor differences (soft, settings, scripts) >> šHardware is all the same. >> šAll the servers are in production. >> >> šThe steps I have to do and the questions about them i have: >> š1. update all soft to current versions (including change of config files) >> šapache - goto v2.2 >> šphp - goto v5.3 >> šmysql - stick with 5.1 >> šexim - goto 4.73 >> šdovecot - goto 1.2.16 >> šq's: >> šhow can upgrading to apache 2.2 + php5.3 be done with minimal downtime? > > portupgrade -o lang/php52 lang/php5 > > That will upgrade your php from 5.2.10 to 5.2.17. Please stick with > php-5.2.x unless you are sure php-5.3 will not break some web apps you are > running. > > upgrade php-extensions the same way. > > can i upgrade or is it better to rebuild it from the scratch (because of > >> šmajor version changes)? > > You can upgrade. Please follow the instructions from > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt>; > > Just note one thing I noticed while upgrading my servers: > > s/compat7x-`uname -m`-7.2.702000.200906.1.tbz/compat7x-`uname > -m`-7.3.703000.201008.tbz/g > >> š2. do a binary upgrade of OS according to handbook >> šhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > > You can do that, but I personally prefer > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt>. > I have never used freebsd-update on any system I run, but that is out of > choice, not any other reason! > >> š3. rebuil all the software again >> športupgrade -af > > If you follow > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt>, > there will not be any urgency in doing portupgrade -af. ..
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