Hi Miki,Well, I have had one good experience with a Debian stable server. Upgrade from Potato to Woody via remote SSH session, incurring almost no downtime. I do agree with the notion at large, however. Especially when the system is not maintained with apt.
It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this
out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever.
Instead, use different hardware to make a clean installation.It's a costly solution. I'm not saying it won't be actually cheaper on many occasions than the alternatives, but still costly nontheless.
Then migrateThe customer should be the ultimate decision maker on this one. Offer the alternatives, explain the risks. Explain the costs. Ask them to decide.
the data using rsync and test the new server at your leisure. When you and
your customer are satisfied that it works, cut over to the new server and
leave the old one around for a month, just in case you forgot something.
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/
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