Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:02:05 -0800 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Release engineering confusion Message-ID: <35c231bf0511161702qa11c382le2e43df9dcae6106@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511170052.jAH0qTkM097681@mailscan3.internal.sea.flyingcroc.net> References: <35c231bf0511161645y1dbf3f08v8e19f334847f9767@mail.gmail.com> <200511170052.jAH0qTkM097681@mailscan3.internal.sea.flyingcroc.net>
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On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dpkirchner@gmail.com [mailto:dpkirchner@gmail.com] On > > Behalf Of David Kirchner D'oh. I had no idea my From header looked like that. Another gmail frustrat= ion. > I do only have a handful of servers, however thousands of users, and > indeed, I do have backups. The problem arises in a criticality that >20 > minutes of downtime would lead to a severe problem....which brings up > another good question...how do YOU revert back to a previous release? If > you manage so many servers, I'd love to know what type of routine you'd > use to revert back (and so would many others I'd think ;) Depending on how serious the problem is we may restore the changed files from backups or cvsup to the date just before when the -RELEASE-pNN tag was set.
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