On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:42:27 -0800, Toni S wrote: > I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a > small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. The box > does not serve any commercial purpose, but it does handle a portion of > my private email traffic. So I'd like the system not being down for more > than 12 hours. > > In case of any service failures after doing 'sudo aptitude safe- > upgrade' I'd like to know some methods to smoothly revert to my current > installation.
(...) > What's your recommendation / experience for downgrade? If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. In the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, if you made a full image of the currently installed system), you only have to boot with the old lenny install, which remains intact and ready to serve you. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.07.17.23...@gmail.com
