On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:19:02AM +1100, David wrote: > > I'm running woody on a mail server, but woody is just too far behind, so > I'm considering going to testing. > > Does anyone have any advice about simply doing an upgrade? are there any > disasters to look out for? Would the Debian gurus suggest a simple > upgrade, or should I build a complete new box to avoid nasty surprises?
Upgrades on debian usually work as advertised, but I typically do at least a couple of upgrades early on in the piece by mirroring the active box (or restoring from last backup -- a good test of your disaster-recovery plans) onto a new box, and then doing the upgrade on that one. That way, if anything does go *pop*, you haven't hosed your production server. - Matt
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