Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:09:49 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: install/upgrade question Message-ID: <20080305080949.68403c86@thudpucker.makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <f84c38580803050559s3f49f43due84bf92904214d3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <f84c38580803050559s3f49f43due84bf92904214d3f@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_/nMJydR6KGjndYGty5ihQGmK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:59:45 -0500 "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I think this Q is pretty basic, but I just want to make sure. I was > considering if upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0 and something goes wrong, and > I need to do a fresh install. Can I only change/overwrite the /etc > /usr, etc but leave /home intact?? thank you!! Why not simply tar the dirs you want archived and save them off to some other media? This way you are certainly covered almost to the point of a hard disk failure. With the price of blank CD's, DVD's, and thumb drives - this seems to be a reasonable thing to consider. But to answer your question (somewhat) if I were either that unsure of what was going to happen (or paranoid) then I would most certainly have a backup (tarball) of the "important" stuff before I tried anything. Simply not invoking backups (of any type or any time) is silly. Just my 1/2 cent (applied current rate of inflation). --=20 Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 --Sig_/nMJydR6KGjndYGty5ihQGmK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzqmujSDsxxq1/vgRAjECAJ4vGDrJgoRMy1DEYQsgBIrKnW3QKQCeK/OE XHcVwwOwmydS4NJVOjw3ndo= =68nR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/nMJydR6KGjndYGty5ihQGmK--
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