If your root is setting on a different partition/disk you might as well upgrade using debootstrap on another disk. "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"
-- Greek Ordono myppa: launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa --- On Mon, 9/27/10, Red Sancho <[email protected]> wrote: From: Red Sancho <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance (eric pareja) To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 27 September, 2010, 3:44 PM Thanks guys, we found that the raid controller and its settings was the culprit for the corruption of data. write-back cache was enabled without a battery backup unit moving forward, thanks for all the suggestions. Our reason for upgrading is security. also a backup policy will be implemented for certain users of our websites only, freeloaders will still be prone to data loss :D From: Paulito Palmes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 12:21:08 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance (eric pareja) >Sancho, >What conditions made you decide to upgrade from Etch to current Debian version? >"Latest and the greatest" in software isn't always the best, >especially when aiming at stability on production systems. I think it is advisable to upgrade because security support of etch stopped from Feb 15, 2010: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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