18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
9:18 p.m.
Hi Paul,
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:55:58PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote:
Is it safe to do an in place upgrade now (I remember
it didn't alway go
smoothly early on)
Here's what worked for me:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20100504.163132.4db7405a.en.html
or would a clean install be better (OK, likely always
better in
some ways, but if I can do an in place now and think about a clean
install for 12.04 later that would be easier - hopefully!).
Personally in this case¹ I would migrate to a new VPS. It was for
this sort of reason that we began to offer temporary VPSes for
migration purposes:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS
Even with the best luck in the world, this is likely to be a complex
upgrade and everything will be down while you're doing it. Being
able to move things across to a new host across the space of two
weeks seems preferable to me.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ I've done things like Debian etch->lenny->squeeze in sequence
without a reboot until the very end, but that was on a simple
single-purpose VPS and to be quite honest I trust Debian's
in-place upgrades a lot more.
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