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Please do not consider following an actual upgrade process. back up your data and rebuild the box from scratch. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly.
Please do not consider following an actual upgrade process. back up your data and rebuild the box from scratch. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly.
Easy to say, however sometimes harder to do in "real life".
Company I worked with the testing and signoff on a rebuild from REL3 to REL5 would have been around a year and the migration of individual servers would have taken at least a week each. The testing and signoff on an "in-place" upgrade took 3 months and the individual servers took a few hours.
A LOT depends on what the servers are doing, but for a standard web/e-mail/file server I'd go down the whole from scratch route (and have done a few times).
Easy to say, however sometimes harder to do in "real life".
Company I worked with the testing and signoff on a rebuild from REL3 to REL5 would have been around a year and the migration of individual servers would have taken at least a week each. The testing and signoff on an "in-place" upgrade took 3 months and the individual servers took a few hours.
A LOT depends on what the servers are doing, but for a standard web/e-mail/file server I'd go down the whole from scratch route (and have done a few times).
Yes, it is! Given that people ask the same questions without searching the forum I'll provide the same answers. I think I'll put that one on a macro hot-key!
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Given that people ask the same questions without searching the forum I'll provide the same answers. I think I'll put that one on a macro hot-key!
