Subject: Re: upgrade and restore
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 00:54:12 AKDT
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 17:02, volz wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have a system that has been very stable and reliable over the years. I hate
> to mess with a good thing. It is now running rh7.1.I have upgraded this machine
> several times with no loss of utility. I believe that the original install was
> rh6.0. This system runs a bunch of applications that have their roots in old
> libs, (old perl, old versions of glibc, all kind of stuff). I have upgraded this
> machine several times with no loss of utility. I find myself needing to bring
> the system up to date again. But I am a little worried I may lose some of the
> applications or break one of our processes in the upgrade. Is there a utility or
> method to restore the system to its current glory if the upgrade is
> unsuccessful, short of a hard metal restore?
>
> - Karl Volz
>
> Alaska Experimental Forecast Facility
> 2811 Merrill Field Dr.
> Anchorage AK 99501
>
> (907) 264-7427
>
> volz@aeff.uaa.alaska.edu
>
>
PartImage works for me its the Norton Ghost of linux. www.partimage.org
you can download an .iso that contains a live cd. Very nice and fast
network restores.
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