On 3/8/21 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
How do you feel it compares to just installing from scratch while preserving whatever config and user data you care about? I've done that quite a few times and it usually takes about 2-3 hours for the initial install and then overnight to build a desktop environment (if one is needed).
I feel like installing from scratch misses a lot of things. Even wholesale overwriting the new /etc with the old /etc is questionable. You'd have to make sure that all the same software was installed.
Aside: I've spent too much time around other SAs that would ""recover a down server by doing fresh installs in hours and then spending weeks to get everything back to the way that it needed to be verses spending ~18 hours to restore from tape and have things work the way they were 24 hours prior. I also never cared for in place upgrades (installing over top of itself) in the Windows world.
I feel *MUCH* /more/ comfortable with what I did than other solutions. I trust that this is the same install with patches applied. I couldn't and wouldn't say the same for an installation over the top or fresh installation.
Don't get me wrong. I believe there are places for fresh installations. They usually happen coordinate with new machines and / or new drives for me.
After all, I effectively have the same thing that I would have if I had done updates over the last year like they should have been done.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
