Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:19:22 +0200 From: Scott Harrison <scott@mithrandir.com> To: Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices for remote upgrade? Message-ID: <ECEE3367-C048-437F-B1D6-1156DB98C65E@mithrandir.com> In-Reply-To: <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> <20060508231759.GC545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>
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--Apple-Mail-10--784845093 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed On May 9, 2006, at 12:56 , Hans Lambermont wrote: > David Wolfskill wrote: > >> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Scott Harrison wrote: >>> I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and >>> perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these >>> machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know =20 >>> whether it >>> is possible for me to upgrade the machines with only ssh access, and >>> what one should do to go about upgrading them. > ... >> I then have little shell scripts to use "dump | restore" to =20 >> "clone" the >> file systems from one slice to the other. > ... >> * Reboot from the "other" slice (the target of the above operation). >> * Upgrade in place. >> * Reboot (without changing active slice). > > I do almost the same; I do not reboot to the other slice to upgrade =20= > it, > instead I use the current slice to upgrade, and if that fails =20 > reboot to > the other slice (the backup slice). It's the same idea, with one less > reboot. > > This dual-boot-slice (or disk :) setup also allows for the UFS->UFS2 > transition. > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already =20 partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and =20 live repartition it to be like this? --=20 =C2=B7=F0=90=91=95=F0=90=91=92=F0=90=91=AA=F0=90=91=91 = =C2=B7=F0=90=91=A3=F0=90=91=BA=F0=90=91=A6=F0=90=91=95=F0=90=91=A9=F0=90=91= =AF Scott Harrison --Apple-Mail-10--784845093--
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