On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:31:33 -0500 Steve Charmer wrote:
> SA was originally installed using apt-get (Ubuntu-16) > BACKUP > I would feel safer if I had a backup of the current spamassassin > system. is there a recommended method to backup all files to a tar? > > I think I have identified these folders as worthy of backup: > > # define an array of folders to backup > backup_dirs=( \ > '/etc/spamassassin' \ > '/usr/bin' \ > '/usr/sbin' \ > '/usr/share/perl5' \ > '/usr/share/spamassassin' \ > '/var/lib/spamassassin' \ I only ever backup the equivalent of /etc/spamassassin, and not especially before upgrades. I'm more likely to break it than a package upgrade is. An upgrade should only reinstall the *.sample files under that directory. If you are going to back-up installed files you need to back-up practically everything, including the package database[s], so that you can do a full roll-back. A partial restore of old installed files could leave things in an inconsistent state - although you may get away with it on Debian/Ubuntu. > To upgrade to the latest version, 3.4.5 > do I just run: > > apt-get install spamassassin I've not used Ubuntu or apt-get, but usually package managers have some kind of upgrade command. Unless there's a good reason not to, I'd update everything IIWY. When upgrading SA to a different version you need to run sa-update to populate the new rules directory and optionally run sa-compile if you use it. spamd or any other daemon using the SA perl libraries (e.g. amavisd) should be restarted.
