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