Re: upgrading FreeBSD

From: Dick Hoogendijk (dick_at_nagual.st)
Date: 02/02/05

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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:49:23 +0100
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    On 02 Feb Erik Trulsson wrote:
    > The sequence
    > backup all data
    > make a fresh install of 5.3
    > restore data from backup
    > will almost certainly be quicker, simpler, and less prone to
    > catastrophic failure.
    >
    > (Making a backup of all important data is a *very* good idea anyway.)

    You're so right ;-)
    Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important
    data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy
    part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running
    system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very
    important data dirs, but what others are too? 

    -- 
dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
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