Hello, I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc.
First I did a fresh new install with Debian8 on a client. Then I used rsync to make a backup of that to the server. After that I used rsync again to sync this backup to a Debian7 client, with some excludes. Rsync did not give errors, SSH did still work after the sync. It was neccessary to do an "update-grub" (for the UUID of the root partition), and a "grub-install", because of the new grub version in Debian 8. After a reboot of the client everything worked fine. This are the scripts I used on the server: https://vandervlis.nl/files/backup-client8 https://vandervlis.nl/files/sync-client8 I think this is interesting for upgrading, but it's also interesting to keep clients identical after bigger changes. Maybe even as an alternative for Puppet. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/md6mgg$alq$1...@ger.gmane.org
