On Mar 4, 2015 12:24 PM, "Paul van der Vlis" <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > > 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 >
Thank you for sharing Paul! May I trouble you with some details about this? I am curious about the disks setup on your clients, I suppose they're partitioned in a similar manner. Also what directories did you have to exclude? Best regards, -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
