Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc.
You have company using rsync to upgrade file by file. Google upgrades that way too. I liked presentation and found it quite interesting. http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html Unfortunately the original paper is now 403 forbidden. I think that is likely a mistake somewhere. But the Internet Archive Wayback Machine has a copy if you want to browse it. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://marc.merlins.org/linux/talks/ProdNG-LCA2014/Paper/ProdNG.pdf Bob
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