From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 16 10:28:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.infoinsights.com (infinity.infoinsights.com [208.151.124.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201C437B403 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisl@thethirdsector.com) Received: by infinity.thethirdsector.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:24:11 -0800 Message-ID: <70CDD1EE3A2CD511993900104B0A30A201A76A@infinity.thethirdsector.com> From: Chris Lott To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Inherited a system Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:24:10 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've inherited a FreeBSD system (uname says: 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0:). I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, but not much with FreeBSD. I am impressed at this point because this box is the most stable of our underpowered boxes, but I am quite unclear on syhstem particulars. My main worries right now are: disaster recovery and upgrading to a more recent version. This box does heavy duty service as a web server with a mix of static and slash sites and a mail system (using PostFix) not to mention backup DNS. Because there is so much stuff going on, some of which I am probably unaware of, my normal upgrade procedure of wipe, install new OS, and reinstall sites and apps isn't possible. Should I worry about upgrading? Any advice about disaster recovery routines? c -- Chris Lott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message