*Technically*, you can do the yum upgrade to CentOS from RHEL, while the system is running. You need to make a full system backup, however, and that really requires you to take the system down for a little while (or a long while, depending on how much data the system has.)
Does the system use LVM? If it does, that messes up some backup software because they will have to do a block-level backup, rather than just backing up used space. On the other hand, LVM gives you some nice snapshot capabilities (which I've never fully mastered.) Chris On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/08/2012 02:50 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> You could always make a full system image backup with Clonezilla and >> then try the upgrade to CentOS 5 from RHEL 5 that I told you about. It >> worked fine for us (but of course we had a snapshot backup in case it >> didn't...) >> >> Chris >> > > Production system in another location (read customer). Don't have much in > the way of an offload scheme. Working on that also. > > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
