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- Subject: [Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation
- From: nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:42:35 -0400
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Thanks, everyone. All of this information is fantastic. I need to learn a lot to put it into use, but I am an optimist ... --Nancy On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:12:00 -0500 > Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote: > > > I don't sysadmin professionally anymore, but when I did, I also > > preferred the same solutiion as Rich: Don't back up OS and software, > > do a fresh install. And I still prefer that. It's usually faster and > > easier, and it also gives you a nice opportunity to update to more > > recent versions of things, if you haven't been keeping up with > > updates, or even update to a newer OS. > > While Debian itself is very easily upgraded to new major releases, > Ubuntu isn't. Canonical have created tools to run in place upgrades. My > experience with them is that if you're running a desktop environment > then the target won't upgrade cleanly. Upgrades to console-only "server" > installs are more likely to succeed. > > Red Hat have created tools to upgrade major releases (EL 6 to EL 7). My > experience with them is that they are even less reliable than > Canonical's, requiring the removal of all packages from third party and > non-default yum repositories and the removal of those repositories. And > maybe the upgrade will work and maybe it won't, and even if it does > work you're still saddled with ext4 because that can't be converted in > place to xfs. > > Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible. > > -- > Rich Pieri > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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