Quoth Jonathan Ben Avraham:
> 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.
Wisest advice ever seen on this forum. Live upgrades are an idea for the
adventure-minded.
> Instead, use different hardware to make a clean installation. Then migrate
> 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.
To add one thing - since there WILL be a window between cloning data and
finishing the tests on the copy - a period of time during which live
data will grow on the old system - add minimal code to the production
server to update the copy server.
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