On 11/26/2011 10:56 AM, Edward wrote:
On 11/25/11 10:14 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Would you also advise to upgrade my BSD 'release'?
The FreeBSD Handbook have a section covering it :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
My personal experience :
http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/07/freebsd-how-to-upgrade-kernel-or-base.html
*** disclosure, that's my blog.
Thank you - nice blog! :-)
Also pretty much the approach I am taking, just nice to see that the
approach is valid and already tested and tried by more experienced people.
If so I would upgrade to 8.2 as stated in a previous posting but since
I'm running jails and many services aggregated into one machine, what's
the best way to proceed?
I'm currently just backing up /etc, /var, /usr/shared, /usr/local/etc,
/usr/local/var, and /usr/local/shared.
Don't forget /usr/jails, that's where your jails live.
Actually all my jails are custom. I have them in /mnt/zfs/jail as I run
them from my ZFS mount. However, I guess not to loose the information
residing in them I probably should back them up too.
Will the freebsd-upgrade tool wipe all my config files? Or will the
upgrade be seamless?
You might wanna try freebsd-update on a box with customize config files
(e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/ssh/sshd_config or blah blah blah) to have a feel
on how mergemaster works on merging config files. It took me a few
upgrade tries to get familiar with it. In general, if you've backup the
configs in /etc& /usr/local/etc, you can always restore the working
copy back and your services shouldn't fail :)
Unfortunately I don't have another box to test on unless I use a VM in
VirtualBox on my notebook. Luckily I have backups now of all config file
directories including /usr/share and /usr/local/share so I hope that I
won't get in to deep-stuk if everything goes khabluey!
It will just take ages as I kinda run the system as a sort of mainframe
with 7 jails and many, many services.
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