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From: Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@urgent.rug.ac.be>
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To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net
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Subject: Re: use new apt to do null to RH8 upgrade?
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> Matthias Saou (matthias@egwn.net) wrote*:
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> >As Red Hat does, I really don't recommend trying to upgrade between betas
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> >or from a beta to a final release either. Simply backup your /home, /etc
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> >(and /root and/or /usr/local/ if needed) then reinstall cleanly, it'll
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> >probably save a few hassles and you'll get the cleanest possible system ;-)
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>
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> I think this is probably the best way, because I think (maybe) with upgrading you
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> do not always automatically get the latest feature enabled in some config file
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> because RH would rather take it easy and not update that config file (you get a
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> rpmnew instead of rpmsaved file) so they get less calls to support that way.
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If you dislike Red Hat, why use it ? This was a really bad argument
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against using Red Hat that makes no sense at all. I for one am GLAD that
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they
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a) don't overwrite your config files on a whim (be GLAD they don't do some
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sort of autodetection and changing crap)
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b) tell you on rpm upgrade what config files you should look at because
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formats have changed.
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Red Hat is not "taking it easy" on this, it's putting control in the hands
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of you, the maintainer of the machine. Don't be lazy.
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> Anyway, I have tons of media files in /home/* probably 5 to 10 gigs at least, my
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> laptop's CDROM takes 700MB at a time (obviously) and compressing media files is
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> dumb because they are already compressed. Dumb question: how to backup huge data?
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> Network backup to another box? I do not have a box with a tape drive, but maybe box
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> with a large HD with much free space could take the backup (oops, I do not have a
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> space computer with a large HD with much free space).
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You don't need to backup /home if you are careful enough. You did put
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/home on a separate partition, no ? Just install rh80 and tell it to use
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the same partition as /home and tell it to NOT format it, but keep the
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data as is.
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If you didn't put /home on a separate partition, then you really do need
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to make backups. Use an nfs or smb mount from another machine to backup
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and rsync straight to the mount, or if that's not possible, rsync over
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ssh. It's the best way to make backups.
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> These media files are backed up - ON THE CD'S THEY CAME FROM!
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It's the other way around - your media files are backups of the CD's they
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came from ;)
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Good luck,
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Thomas
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